Windows 10: Microsoft Windows 10 Seems Confused About Accounts Over LAN

Hi,


So, first a little background. I've been running a home network since the late 90's, variously using 98, XP, Vista, 7 and now finally 10 over the years. I've never had so many problems with basic network functionality until these last two years. But this isn't a gripe post. I have an issue I specifically need help with regarding Microsoft software insisting on knowing better than I do what I want. Please allow me to explain.


Built a PC last year, and when I installed Win 10 on it, it asked me about making my user account my regular Microsoft account. I thought it couldn't hurt, so I went ahead and did it. This is something I really regret, but I don't really want to go back and install everything over again after so many months using things as they've been. So, this is what's happening--


My wife and I share web access using the same Google Chrome account for reasons of our own. Never was a problem in the past. But now, because we sign into the same Google accounts from both computers, Windows thinks it's me on both computers and duplicates things I don't want it to duplicate. For example, I play Minecraft with my kids. I have a good graphics card and installed the beta to try out the RTX update. My kids try to login to play on their mother's computer, under her computer account, with their own username in Minecraft, just as they've always done before, and it has installed the beta on that computer as well. This is my wife's computer. She has her own username and password she uses to get into Windows. This isn't the first time Windows has done something on that computer just because I've done it here on mine.


Whatever. I figure I'll wrap it up and get them back into regular Minecraft. So after I'm done checking out the pretty graphics added into MC, I switch mine back. I unenroll, uninstall Minecraft, and reinstall it. Back to normal. All is well on my PC. I go back to get them into regular Minecraft again, and the problems begin. First, even though I log in to MS Live with a different account and re-download the install of Win 10 Minecraft on that computer, it insists on signing into MC as me, only of course it says I'm already logged in on another computer and logging in there, on her PC, will boot me off here. I don't want that, but try as I might, I cannot find a way to manually tell it to sign in as my kid on her own account. I try to tell it to get rid of account info, but nothing I do will get it to see her as the owner of that download, even though it came from her account, which I created and supervise in the store. Yes, I was signed into that account on that computer at the store when I redownloaded and reinstalled it there. I made sure of it. But when it came time to sign in, it continuously attempted to sign in as me, and of course stopping when it could not do so without booting me off the other computer. At no time did it offer me the option to sign in there as a different user.


In the end, the only solution that would work was to install the Xbox app and create her a gamertag/account. Then it signs into MC as her, but all of her old games are gone. I'm pretty certain it sees her as a completely different user than the one who signed in before the switch to beta and back since now it's using her gamertag name rather than her previous minecraft name.


I don't want to use Xbox live or gamertag or whatever. I lost all my stats, ranks, achievements years ago when they pulled the plug on Batman Arkham Asylum. Why would I ever trust that service again? What's more, why is Microsoft Windows insisting on seeing me and my wife as the same person when we are using two separate usernames and passwords on two separate computers on the same network just because we use the same Google account in Chrome? Furthermore, why is Minecraft insisting on trying to sign them in on that other computer as me when I don't sign into windows there, we are just using the same Chrome account? Totally bass ackwards if you ask me, but then, you're not asking me. You're telling me how it will be, just like you've always done.


Don't get me started on my feelings about how you've gutted homegroups. I'm not here for that.


I just want to know how to get it to stop trying to synchronize her computer and mine. Nobody told it to install the Minecraft beta on her computer. It just saw that I had done so on mine and copied my choices over there. What is up with that? And why, after reinstalling it, did it insist on signing in as me when all I wanted was the opportunity to manually enter her username and password? Why is this happening? What can be done to avoid it in the future? How can I get her into Minecraft for Win 10 on that computer without using the Xbox app?

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

• Launch the Store from your Start menu.
• Click the user icon next to the search box.
• Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
• Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
• When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

from Lifehacker

 

Strange Windows 10 User Account issue.

Unfortunately I had done those steps numerous reboots, it just, reappears for no good reason. The base account isn't even a Microsoft account, it's a local account.

I haven't quite tried the built in administrator account on W10, but so far in my experience on my own computer, the built in account seemed to have absolutely no more control than I did on my own.

It's just strange, I go in, it warns me twice about deleting the account, then it's gone. Reboot, and it's back?

EDIT: Just to specify, both command line and Netplwiz both say only HIS account exists on the computer, it doesn't list this rogue account. This is what I meant in my first post about the fact that even Windows doesn't seem to believe it exists, HALF the time. *Frown

 

Windows 10

you don't have to use a Microsoft account....
I know I'm not.