Windows 10: Microsoft digitally linked account question.

So my neighbours been given a computer for her kids and it looks like it was a windows 7 laptop that someone has made up an email and a phone number to install windows 10 with digital licence activation.

Windows works fine but starts complaining it wants to send a text to the made up number if you try to access Microsoft emails either in app or in browser. Is it possible to sign into windows with another Microsoft account or will that cause windows to stop working if it is already linked to an old desktop pc?

Is it best to just use Gmail and don't try messing about with the digitally linked account as the computer works fine and is reporting as activated.

Thanks in advance.

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Link Microsoft Account to Windows 10 Digital License  

This is what i get on step 2

 

Link Microsoft Account to Windows 10 Digital License


Hey, I have a question.
Do you think the digital license is saved on my MSA after i changed back to my local account?

What I mean by that:
I Added MSA to my Windows 10 and it said in Activation tab "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account", and my PC was in device list of my MSA.
But I don't like the fact that I have to type in password every time I boot up. It's my private PC, I don't need password, I never had. So I switched back to my Local account. But now it's back to "Windows is activated with a digital license" only, and the PC is also gone from the device list on my MSA account.
Do you think it actually unlinked the license, or maybe because I logged in once, it saved anyway, and I will be good with activating in the future on a changed machine?

 

Link Microsoft Account to Windows 10 Digital License  

I'm having the same issue.

But I also have a device named "PC" in the device list now. It's just PC. I guess it appeared after the Anniversary update.

Before the update, I could see my computer on the MSA device list, even though I've been using local account. But now it appears only if I login to W10 using my Microsoft account. If I switch to local account, it disappears. But the "PC" stays there whether I use MSA or local acc.

So what's that "PC"? Any ideas?

It's also not cool that MS forcing people to use MS account to login their PCs. Activated devices were always in the device list even if you use local account before that so called update.