Windows 10: Apps and features not working after linking PC with Microsoft account

I inadvertently linked my Microsoft account with my login in Windows 10 (was just trying to get access to the Xbox screen capture feature). After that, two bad things happened:

1 - I am forced to enter my Microsoft login details every time I want to log in to my computer, which I never did because I don't need that and also hate it;

2 - on top of that, I'm having a really terrible problem because whenever I need to open something and that "User Account Control" pop-up comes up saying "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your computer?", the ""YES" option is grayed out, i.e., dead, non-clickable. Only the"NO" can be clicked.

So because of that I just can't access a good number of features in Windows 10 -- System Restore, Accounts management and many others -- and even worse, I can't open a whole bunch of programs (like Advanced System Care and most others) and now the worst of all: I can't even install any program in my computer. And I just reset (re-installed) Windows 10 to see if that would solve the problem -- but it didn't -- and I lost all the software I had installed, and now I can't install them back anymore.

So does anyone know why this is happening and how can I solve both the "mandatory password" situation and especially the grayed out "YES" in the User Account Control pop-up?

I will be forever indebted for any help you can give me because I'm just at the end of my rope here, no clue on what to do now, and feeling really desperate.

Thanks in advance.

Paul

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windows phone features not working after account renaming

Well there is a way for you to re-install apps quickly.

You have the following options:



1) Revert Xbox Live sign-in e-mail to your old one. If that's the e-mail you have currently installed on your Windows Phone then everything should resume operability. If you need to reset the phone for any reason you can use
https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/account (this a link to US accounts) to just reinstall all the apps from the web. Very handy feature.



2) If you want to use the new Live ID from now on you'll need to re-purchase the apps. Think of your live ID as your social security number. You can't just go and get it change on a whim whenever you decide. A live ID is your Windows Phone Social Security.
You can change it, but then everything associated with it will be also left behind.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2430020



Hope this helps

 

windows phone features not working after account renaming

Sadly you're boxed into a corner with this issue. There's currently no way to change your master Live ID credentials on a Windows Phone without a hard reset and setting up the Live ID from scratch.



Sorry.