Windows 10: How can I as the admin use my same proton.me email as the email for all PC admin accounts...

Hello,I have two Windows 11 Pro computers and two Windows 10 computers. I will upgrade the Windows 10 to Windows 11 after I fix this admin log-in challenge. Microsoft did something unexplainable that prevented me from accessing both my microsoft live.com email and my microsoft email server proprietary business name email. It said I can only use my cell phone as security access for one or the other. So I am abandoning the live.com email. I just changed the admin credential for one of the Windows 11 computers from live.com to proton.me because I can easily access the proton.me email. The se

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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.

 

Admin email replaced with hackers email. How can I point admin role to new email?

1. You must be the Administrator on the computer to run the commands I listed earlier.

2. Change Admin Account in Settings

How to change a Windows 10 user account type and why you might want to

3. There are utilities (free) that can locate passwords on the device. These are from NirSoft.

EncryptedRegView,

CredentialsFileView, and
VaultPasswordView

EncryptedRegView will decrypt passwords found in Windows Registry

4. As Greg said, go to every site you do business with and change your passwords to secure your accounts.

5. If nothing works, Perform a clean install of Windows 10 which will wipe account information out on the system.

How to do a Clean Install of Windows 10 the Easy Way

Scroll down to Erase Everything in this tutorial to see how to completely erase data on the pc so you can register your account on the unit. These are the steps one would do if selling or donating the pc. There are steps on how to backup your files in the
beginning of the tutorial.

What to do before selling your old PC

 

Admin email replaced with hackers email. How can I point admin role to new email?

Yes, I want to get rid of the hacker's account.

The hacker's email account is the administrator account. I set-up a
new Microsoft email account also as an
admin under family & friends, but hacker's is still the main admin. Will I be able to use the new admin account I set-up when doing what you suggest? The hacker's admin email has thwarted me from removing his as I don't have his password or phone
number.