Windows 10: Logging in to my MS account changed user name and password. Can I recover

The first time this happened was nearly a disaster. I was using my normal windows local user account, but kept getting messages that I wasn't logged into OneDrive. Somehow I logged into my MS account and the during the login process MS changed my account password. Nearly didn't recover from that, as the password ended up being different than my MS account. Point is, MS processes and SW changed the password I needed to use to log into my laptop. I was able to recover by finding the PW that was used.


Anyway, this Sunday I was on my wife's computer. My goal was to replace her office 2010 with the office 365 subscription that I bought. During the process, I logged into my MS account on the web and tried to download Office 356. Two issues

1 The office site was down. MS tech service suggested trying again later after they'd fixed the problem on MS' end. I did.

2 More perniciously, MS assumed that when I logged into my MS account that I wanted it to change the current account I was on my wife's, let's call her "Sally" to MY MS account name "JSmith". And it also changed the password to my account password.

The pernicious part is that in all this, it assigned my wife's user directory c:/users/Sally to the user now called JSmith.


I need to have an account, Sally, that points to the user directory and profiles now in c:/users/Sally. I can live with a JSmith account on the computer, but I need for that account to point to the directory/profiles at c:/users/JSmith.


Since the JSmith account is apparently not just local, I can't change that name. Can I change that account to local, and cut ties with the MS account? That would allow me to rename it to Sally. Then I could just create a new account, JSmith normally and the new directory and profile would be created automagically.


What a horrible system: it changes user names and passwords without even telling you.

:)

 

Change log-on account name?

Hi,

Follow the steps below to change or edit Local user account.

• Select the keyboard shortcut Win+X and select
  Control panel.
• Click View by and select Large icons.
• Click User accounts and select Manage another account.
• Select your user account (the one to edit/rename) and click Change the account user name.
• Type correct user name, click Apply and OK.

Let us know how it goes.

 

How to change admin user account name?

Ah so just ignore the 'Brink' and use the 'Brink2' as the example

And step 1 and 2, I was confused at that part also.
For example, my user account is called for e.g 'wizzle'
If I want to change the name to 'wizzle2', and by following steps 1 and 2;
-I sign out of my MS account (step 1)...and then sign in?

I understand the steps 3 onwards but steps 1 and 2 with the sign out/in was confusing :?

 

Query about changing the User Accounts name

Hi Jerry,

Perform the steps mentioned below to change the user account name.

• Sign in to the Your info page on the Microsoft account website.
  
• 
  Under your name, select Edit name.
  If there’s no name listed yet, select Add name.
  
• Edit or add the name you want, then choose Save.
  Your Microsoft account name will start to appear or change everywhere you use it.
  

Please revert if you still cannot change the user account name.

Thank you.