Windows 10: Password rejected when I try to switch to my microsoft account on laptop - but same ms...

I'm trying to switch from my recently-created local account back to my Microsoft account on my Windows 10 laptop. But it won't accept the password I put in, even though I have checked the password repeatedly, including signing in via the Microsoft webpage.

Totally stuck here. This is what happens:

First, I hit the Windows key, then select my local account, choose manage account and then click "sign in with a Microsoft account instead".

I enter my outlook.com email address and go through the authenticator app check without problems.

I enter the password and then get this error message
"The password you have entered for your device is incorrect. Please try again."

But here's the thing. First off, I carefully checked the password is correct. I also entered it from my password app to make sure there were no errors.

Yet, when I go to settings> Microsoft account> manager account — and I am taken to a webpage — I can sign in without a problem using exactly the same password that has just been rejected..

To try to sort this out, I have reset my password via the web page and I still have the same problem.

Going direct the Microsoft account, the password works. But if I tried to switch to the Microsoft account from my local account, the password is rejected.

I am totally stuck, any help will be gratefully received.

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New Microsoft password rejected in the Recovery Environment

It's not just system restore that will ask for a password, almost all the recovery environment's troubleshooting options require you to give the password of a local administrator account before letting you proceed. You problem is that while you have changed your MS account password, the local account password hasn't changed.

I'm not sure how you'd go about changing the local account password while it is linked to your MS account. You may be able to switch to a local account, change the password to match the one you used for the MS account, then switch it back to an MS account. I don't use an MS account, so I can't test that for you.

What I can suggest is that you create a new local administrator account just for maintenance purposes and never link it to a MS account. Apart from anything else, it's always a sensible precaution to have a second administrator in case of problems signing in to your original one. When booting to any Advanced Start Up option that requires a password you can choose this local account instead, then you will know for certain which password to use.

 

local account unable to switch to MS account

That's ok. When you get to step 7 above, you would just leave it blank.

When you successfully switch to a Microsoft account, it will use the password of your Microsoft account.

 

Switch laptop sign in from MS account to Local Account questions

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