Question Greyed out Microsoft Account check box...how to be able to toggle it?

[Golgatha]

I want to disable the nagging regarding signing into a microsoft account when I log out of my machine. Is there a way to enable this greyed out checkbox? So far my Google Fu has failed me.

 

[mikeymikec]

The short answer I believe is no.

I did a bit of registry monitoring on Windows 11 and it appears that changing one of the available options on that page makes changes in the following registry location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks

But in fine Microsoft style, why call a spade a spade when you can call it a pile of gobbledegook.

I hypothesized that all the subkeys with a 'CheckSetting' binary key might represent the enabled tick boxes, but alas no, there's too many of those.

I believe that the following keys refer to the following tickboxes (based on watching Process Monitor output):
{E8433B72-5842-4d43-8645-BC2C35960837}.check.104 = Internet Security Settings
{E8433B72-5842-4d43-8645-BC2C35960837}.check.101 = Network Firewall
{C8E6F269-B90A-4053-A3BE-499AFCEC98C4}.check.0 = User Account Control
{E8433B72-5842-4d43-8645-BC2C35960837}.check.100 = Virus Protection
{01979c6a-42fa-414c-b8aa-eee2c8202018}.check.100 = Windows Backup
{DE7B24EA-73C8-4A09-985D-5BDADCFA9017}.check.800 = Automatic Maintenance
{3FF37A1C-A68D-4D6E-8C9B-F79E8B16C482}.check.100 = Drive Status
{A5268B8E-7DB5-465b-BAB7-BDCDA39A394A}.check.100 = Windows Troubleshooting
{B447B4DB-7780-11E0-ADA3-18A90531A85A}.check.100 = File History
{AA4C798D-D91B-4B07-A013-787F5803D6FC}.check.100 = Storage Spaces
{34A3697E-0F10-4E48-AF3C-F869B5BABEBB}.check.9001 = Work Folders


Logically, {E8433B72-5842-4d43-8645-BC2C35960837}.check.106 might refer to the setting "Spyware and unwanted software protection" because all the other Security Center components share that same starting ID, but even then the binary values for two enabled tick boxes are different when surely all that value has to record is yes/no.

The remaining keys are:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{01979c6a-42fa-414c-b8aa-eee2c8202018}.check.101]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{11CD958A-C507-4EF3-B3F2-5FD9DFBD2C78}.check.101]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{2374911B-B114-42FE-900D-54F95FEE92E5}.check.100]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{34A3697E-0F10-4E48-AF3C-F869B5BABEBB}.check.9002]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{34A3697E-0F10-4E48-AF3C-F869B5BABEBB}.check.9003]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{34A3697E-0F10-4E48-AF3C-F869B5BABEBB}.check.9004]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{852FB1F8-5CC6-4567-9C0E-7C330F8807C2}.check.100]
"CheckSetting"=hex:23,00,41,00,43,00,42,00,6c,00,6f,00,62,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,4c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{96F4A050-7E31-453C-88BE-9634F4E02139}.check.8010]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{E8433B72-5842-4d43-8645-BC2C35960837}.check.106]
"CheckSetting"=hex:23,00,41,00,43,00,42,00,6c,00,6f,00,62,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

Which are two more than there ought to be (given the number of disabled options)

 

[WilliamM2]

I want to disable the nagging regarding signing into a microsoft account when I log out of my machine. Is there a way to enable this greyed out checkbox? So far my Google Fu has failed me.

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That box is greyed out, and checked on my machine, just like yours. I am never asked for a microsoft account.

Try this:

If I reboot or shutdown, no login is required, but if I just log off, I do have to login with a local account. I don't think that can be avoided, but you can remove the MS account, and add a local account.