Windows 10: How To Change Administrator Email Address?

How can I reset email address in Control Panel > User Accounts > Make changes to my account in PC settings ?
If you Google this question you will get only instructions only on how to change password. I don't want to change the password, I want to change the email address.





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How to change Windows 10 administrator email address

Hi,

I suggest you to refer to the link below and refer to the answer provided by
Anil Madishetty and see if it helps to resolve the issue.

Changing administrator email address

Note that a new email address is a whole new Microsoft account, so anything you purchased on the old account will be gone and you'll have to buy it again.

Hope this helps.

Thank you.

 

How to change Windows 10 administrator email address

No, it does not help. It looks like it helps ie it changed the account somewhere, but not to access the computer. My name and my e-mail which I DO NOT WANT THERE are still there. Not your fault. This is a really stupid method on the part of Microsoft.

 

You log out of Microsoft user account and log back with your new email address.

 

I believe you have to sign in to your MS Account online and create an alias email address, then switch to it as your default.

 

Hello beau, *Smile

You would need to change your Microsoft account's primary alias to be the email address you want.

*Arrow Change Primary Alias for Microsoft Account User Accounts Tutorials

 

Thanks FreeBooter ~
I've been googling how to sign out and can't find an answer that makes sense.
For instance, Microsoft's own page says

1)Go to settings (Not control panel)

2)Click on Accounts
3)In the Your Account tab click on Sign in with local account instead (Above Your Picture)

4)Type in your password and you are done!


but in fact there is no such "Sign in with local account instead" choice on that page.

 

I think you first need to create a local account and you should see the Sign in with local account instead from Settings --> Accounts --> Your info.

Why don't you follow @Brink suggestion?

 

This is what I see logged in with a Local Account using the 'path' you posted:

 

You are already using Local Account @Berton.

 

Sorry i don't understand OP not seen the Sign in with local account instead option you have option to Sign in with Microsoft account instead.

 

I followed Brink's link but I don't show the same window as the screenshot in the link, which is



the window I get is




But the problem is that the "Manage how you sign in to Microsoft" page has the correct Account Alias email address, but there's a different one (the one I'm trying to change) in Control Panel > User Accounts > Make changes to my account in PC settings (as I said in my first post).

BTW, the "Manage how you sign in to Microsoft" page has a "Change sign-in preferences" choice, but it brings up a page with the correct email greyed-out and no other choices.

I think I'll just leave things the way they are, after all there aren't any problems that I'm aware of with the current (wrong) email, I'd just prefer to use another.

Thanks everyone for your comments, much appreciated *Smile

 

beau,

Is the Admin user account in question actually the Built-in Admin?

If so, that would certainly not offer you the option in Settings, Accounts to "Sign in with local account instead" because MS never imagined anybody being able to change it into an MSAccount in the first place. There are several threads discussion this subject in TenForums but I do not think any of them identified a solution other than reinstallation.

If the Admin user account in question is an account that you created then ignore my post.

Denis

 

beau,

If you like, you could add the email address you want to use as an alias to your Microsoft account, then make it the primary alias.