Windows 10: After Win 10 upgrade cannot access a local user account

Discus and support After Win 10 upgrade cannot access a local user account in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; After installing Win 10 and creating Microsoft accounts for both my wife and I it is possible to access both as well as my previous laocal account, but... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by LachieMi, Aug 8, 2015.

  1. LachieMi Win User

    After Win 10 upgrade cannot access a local user account


    After installing Win 10 and creating Microsoft accounts for both my wife and I it is possible to access both as well as my previous laocal account, but my wife's has disappeared. It still exists by searching the files but I cannot get to it. I have also lost access to the Office 365 which was in my wife's account. What do do next?

    :)
     
    LachieMi, Aug 8, 2015
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  2. No apps on windows 10 and cant access store

    What does a local account have to do with anything? We already have local user accounts. We upgraded to Win 10 and sometime afterward the store stopped working. The error is that "Windows cannot access the specified drive, path, or file. You may not have
    the appropriate permissions to access the item." I find that strange, since I am the only user on this machine, and its admin.

    I will attempt this solution but I strongly doubt it will do anything. Why would it?
     
    HeatherBungard-Janney, Aug 8, 2015
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  3. Lock out of windows 10 local user account - microsoft account no longer works

    I recently updated from 8.1 pro to windows 10 - my account locked me out with a local user account - cannot access administrative account to remove local account access - I also have another Microsoft account that I can access but it continues to ask me
    for my local user account to change any settings - never set a administrative account nor guest account - access is not available for me to set either... - The account that is local now is link to my Microsoft administrator account - but I cannot tell it to
    not use the local account to login , how do I correct this to only use my Microsoft account... - this happen after not using my account for a few weeks...

    Need to set a local administrator account to remove reference to local user account tied to my Microsoft account
     
    jacqueline goodman, Aug 8, 2015
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  4. Brink
    Brink New Member

    After Win 10 upgrade cannot access a local user account

    Hello LachieMi, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

    If you like, run the command in the tutorial below to get a detailed report about your accounts, and post back with the information to see if it may be able to reveal anything.

    We'll want to look to see if your wife's missing account is listed, and if it is, is it disabled.

    https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html
     
    Brink, Aug 8, 2015
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  5. LachieMi Win User
    I have run the command and the account is not listed. It still exits in the Users directory. When I try to create a new account it will not let me ue the old account name which it says already exists!
     
    LachieMi, Aug 8, 2015
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  6. Brink
    Brink New Member
    In that case, it sounds like the account may have been deleted by mistake. Even when deleted, it's "C:\Users\(user-name)" profile folder will still be there.

    When creating a new local account, it would have to be a different name than that of an existing user profile folder name.
     
    Brink, Aug 8, 2015
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  7. LachieMi Win User
    I have created another account, but I need to access the other account in order to re-establish my connection to my mail and documents using Office 365. This does not sem to be possible!
     
    LachieMi, Aug 8, 2015
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    Brink New Member

    After Win 10 upgrade cannot access a local user account

    Brink, Apr 5, 2018
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