Windows 10: Change Default Windows Email address

Hey guys, I've been trying for hours to change my default windows login for my laptop. The only option its giving me is to change which account is an administrator but there doesnt seem to be an option for deleting the default email address and adding a new one. Im not selling my laptop i just accidently added the wrong microsoft account when i first set it up.

For example, in my 'family and other users' settings, it has my correct account as an 'other' user. I have added this account as an administrator. However if i go to 'email and accounts' it has the wrong microsoft account. I know i can add another microsoft account but all i want to do is delete the wrong one.

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Changing administrator email address

Hi Nooren,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

1) How do you access the Windows computer? Do you use Microsoft account or local account?

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

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  Open PC settings, and click/tap on Accounts on the left side.
  
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  Click/tap on your account on the right side, click/tap on the More account settings online link at the top of the right side.
  
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  If this PC or device is not a trusted device, then you will be prompted to enter and submit a security code sent to your phone or alternate email address.
  
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  In Internet Explorer, or your default web browser, click/tap on the Add or change aliases link under Account aliases.
  
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  Click/tap on Rename under your (primary alias).
  
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  Click/tap on Yes, rename my primary alias.
  
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  Sign in to your Microsoft account with your new email address and password. You can close the web browser when finished.
  
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  To Create a New Email Address to Use as your Primary Alias
  

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    Select (dot) Create a new email address as your primary alias.
    
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    Select if you want a new hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com address.
    
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    Type in a name you want, click/tap on Rename primary alias
    

9. Click/tap on OK.

Hope this helps. Please reply to us with the status of the issue.

Thanks.

 

old email addresses

Thank you for updating me HA.111

Here is the step to remove that old email address.

Start typing an email address into the “To” field. As soon as you see the old email address being recommended as one of the potential candidates, use the down arrow key to scroll through the list of suggestions. Once you highlight the old email address, type
the delete key. In many cases, this will actually remove the entry not only from the current list of suggestions but from future suggestions as well. You may even find that as you mouse over the drop-down list the highlighted item will have an “x” to explicitly
allow you to delete it.

Just do this step and your good to go.

Continue to have an escellent day HA.111

Best regards,

Anthony C. De Jesus

Independent Advisor

 

Default Email is set to Chrome - How do I specify the Email address?

You are correct that the first step is to choose the Default Email Program. The next step is to set the specific email address. Say you have Gmail with 2 different emails. You can specify which email is used to send the emails. As I mentioned, it's strange to me that the Scan App and the Scan and Fax App themselves don't set the email that is used. Once you choose Email, it jumps to the Default Email App and uses those settings.