Comment by Anthony-G

I bought her the laptop a few years ago from a local, independent retailer who also specialise repairs as I try to support local trade and retailers as much as possible. It came with Windows 10 and the retailers had configured it with local user account authentication (no microsoft.com account), removed the advertising and other annoyances and without Bitlocker. She has since upgraded to Windows 11 but it works mostly the same (without obnoxious advertising and distractions).