Windows 10: Constant password changes forced every few days from Microsoft.com sit

Every 2 or 3 days when I try to log in my password fails and I have to get a new one then a few day later it fails again and I go through the same procedure of acquiring anew password. Is this happening globally or just on my account? I was thinking maybe Microsoft is doing it on purpose to make it hard for hacker? Or is it something on my side? What's going on

Mike

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MS Password protection failure

I take my laptop to my store 7 days a week. Today, as happens every month or so, MS "decides" someone is using my account. I log in, go through the phone verification and am finally "allowed" to use my own computer after changing the password.

But when I get home, sit at my desktop, I get the same issue, and am forced to change my password, again. For those challenged, that is twice on one day

Is no one at MS smart enough to figure out that a person who has been using the same computers for three years and travels regularly should be able to do a verification once, and when done not be forced to change a password once, much less twice in one day
since I had already verified my existence with a cell phone?

And then they do not even have the courtesy to actually TALK to me to allow me to keep my perfectly safe and secure password I am happy with.

This after I reluctantly changed to WIN 10 - ostensibly for security, because it obviously wasn't for convenience.

Where is that APPLE store?

 

I've been using the same password since day one of setting up my Microsoft Account. What message do you get when the password fails? Is it failing when you log into your PC or when you try to log into your account online?

 

I have to use my windows laptop to go into microsoft.com and change the password, then I can go to the destop and login. I Try the forget password but I never works always say's password invalid after I get the code in the e-mail. Thats when I go to my Laptop where the password works and change the global password for both computers. When I eventually get a new password I can log on to the desktop and also logon to Microsoft account.

mik

 

So it only does it on one PC? What version of Windows 10 are you running on that PC? Are you logging in with a Microsoft Account or an Office365 account?

 

windows 64 professional. Here is how it goes. I try to login from the last log from yesterday and it says it is invalid so I go through the forgot password and have them send me a code to my e-mail. put the code in and then it asks me for a new password. put the new password in twice and hit ok and then it asks me to login but then it says it an invalid password. But if I go to my laptop in log into microsoft.com and change the password there then that password works on both machines until my desktop craps out on me again with the password and the whole process repeats again. What happens if my laptop breaks down? I would never be able to create a login for my desktop. That's whats scaring me. Is there a way to create a password from you desktop without going through microsoft.com? Some one asked for my E-mail its L: mhaefner@roadrunner.com maybe a tech who works for microsoft could look at the logs and see what's happening?

 

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Do you still get updates for windows 10 on a local account?

 

Yes, you still get updates. It can cause issues with the Store and Apps though. Sync also likely won't work anymore also. Pluses and minuses. I have no idea why your getting the invalid password prompt. I use my Microsoft ID on 3 PC's here, a laptop and two desktops. various different versions of Windows 10. The only one that gives me a similar issue is logging into Education version with my office365 account. It wants to do Windows Hello as a second stage verification, but always fails to send me the code via phone. Screen shots would likely help. You may have to take them with a camera though.

 

My problem is solved. It fixed itself a few since my last post. I don't know how. Update? Microsoft.com saw the problem from my username? Any I no longer loose my password anymore.*Smile

Mik