Windows 10: Changing my main Windows 10 account email

Hey guys. When i installed Windows 10, i used 'Email A' to sign in. Unfortunately, i've been receiving a lot of phishing emails in Email A lately, and would like to switch my main windows 10 account email to a new email.



I did a quick google search and was told that in order to change it, these are the steps i have to follow:

1. Open Start > Settings > Accounts > Your info
2. Click the link Sign in with a Local Account instead
3. Enter your information

Sign in then do this:

1. Open Start > Settings > Accounts > Your info
2. Click the link Sign in with a Microsoft Account instead
3. Enter your information

My question is: What happens when I 'Sign in with a Local Account instead'? Will I lose all my settings, programs, wallpaper etc? Sorry I'm a bit paranoid and afraid that signing in with a local account will mean signing in to a fresh user or something

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Unauthorized Emails from my account?

It is more than likely that your email account was hacked, either by a virus sniffing your password, or just simply hacked.

Either way, change your password on your email account. Unfortunately the damage by already be done. They already have your contact list and your email address associated with that contact list. There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send emails to people that come from your address.

 

email account hacked. please help

Also may I suggest you change email accounts to one of the following.....

Gmail
Outlook

The reason is they both use "Step two verification". This style of verification means even if a hacker gets your password they cannot log in to your account. You see every time someone try's to log in that hasn't been verified you will get a text or a phone call giving you a final code to log in. Its very easy and simple to setup also. The great thing is once you setup your Email application with a specific "application password" from that account you never have to log in again AND your account is protected from being logged in from foreign entities.

I like the new outlook personally however Gmail is also damn good. Gmail also has an IP tracker that allows you to see WHERE the account has been logged in from. Anyway let us know if you wanna change over and have any questions. We will be happy to help and welcome to TPU!

 

Unauthorized Emails from my account?

1. Change your password.
2. Change to Gmail.