


Just create a local user in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management then click "Local Users and Groups" Add a new "local" account to the computer. It's not so much that your user is tied to AD, it's that your PC is tied to AD and it's looking to authenticate you.Īnyway, have them undo whatever they did in AD, there's no reason for it and it's just going to cause issues.

So, what should I do? Is one of the options a viable solution? Feel free to explain what I actually want to do, I'm still rather confused about how the system works. This looks ugly and seems like it could break a lot of things. Option 4: Create a new profile and move the C:\Users\domain_username to C:\Users\local_username. (Note: When I start the application, it does not allow any other option than importing from a file, so I cannot create a backup.) Option 3: Use Windows Easy Transfer to do the job. (Note: The Copy to option is grayed out for me) Option 2: Create a new local user -> Go to User Profiles -> Click on domain user -> Click on Copy to -> Select the new user's directory Option 1: Go to system property -> Computer Name -> Click on Change Button -> Select Member of Local Group instead of domain -> click Apply. However, I found conflicting information about how to accomplish this. I was advised to change my domain account into a local account, so I would like to do that.

The problem is that when I restart my computer and try to log in, I cannot do so due to the fact that my user account is still somehow tied to the domain and when I try to log in, the system complains about being unable to verify the account against some server. I asked the IT department in our company to remove me from our domain so that some restrictions aimed at all the users within the domain no longer apply to me.
