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  1. psychag Win User

    Is there any way to change the Microsoft account assosciated with the admin account on...


    Whilst setting up my father's computer, I made a mistake and connected the wrong Microsoft Account. I now want to connect his Microsoft account, without needing to make a new User or changing the settings. Is that possible or will I need to make a new user and back-up the files? Thanks in Advance.

    :)
     
    psychag, Jul 2, 2023
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  2. Can a Local Admin account manage a Microsoft Admin account?

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    @Tr3: Wow !! Thanks for the comprehensive response.

    BTW: There was an important sentence missing in my OP. That type of error is gradually occurring more often with me now. It was probably one cause of the Windows reset.

    I should have said:

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    - Also, up till now, I've always had a second Admin account just in case. I don't recall ever using the second Admin account, so I must be doing something right.

    After being forced to reset Windows, I currently have one Local Admin account. [I now plan to add a second Local Account for safety. ]

    Question: If I change the [default] Local account to a Microsoft account, can that account be managed by the [second] Local account Admin?
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    I hope the corrections made above might clarify my plan.



    I've started doing that since @dalchina rapped my knuckles here:

    Am I an Adminstrator ? Will I still be Admin in an hours time?

    I used Macrium immediately after the reset. Since then, I've been doing Diffs. Each Diff takes only 1 minute, because of the few changes between each Diff. But the changes themselves took a lot longer than 1 minute.

    IMO, your suggestion to use alternate hard drives for backups is great. My plan had been to use 2 drives with identical contents, but I'm now going to follow your method.

    Before the infamous reset, I converted the default Local account to a Microsoft account (my "primary" account). Then I created a second Microsoft account for safety.

    I then went back to the primary account, and changed myself to a Normal user - as the big boys recommend. I did some stuff. I then needed to be Admin again for something. But I was unable to change myself back to Admin from within the primary account.

    I switched to the alternative MS account. I changed the primary account back from Normal user to Admin. That final step is what I meant when I referred to "using one account to manage another account".

    Your post has a lot of other useful stuff that I'm going to implement - with Diffs in between.

    Thanks for your help.
     
    OldGrantonian, Jul 2, 2023
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  3. Vesao Win User
    Remove account

    I suggest you backup your personalized files first before removing the account.
    To delete an account, follow these steps:
    1. Press WIN + X keys and click Command Prompt (Admin) from the menu.
    2. Type the following command and press Enter. Replace test with the name of your sister's account. Code:
     
    Vesao, Jul 2, 2023
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  4. C0zzie Win User

    Is there any way to change the Microsoft account assosciated with the admin account on...

    How to change admin user account name?

    ah so main admin account is 'wizzle' which is what I am currently on
    I make another account called 'wizzle2' (with admin rights)
    I sign out of 'wizzle' and sign into 'wizzle2'.
    And once signed into 'wizzle2', then I do the command prompt step and find the SID for 'wizzle' that is listed and go from there?
     
    C0zzie, Jul 2, 2023
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