Windows 10: Problems with Windows 10 account (advice and strategy needed)

Hi,

W10 Pro, Version 1909 Build 18363.476

I will try to keep this brief but be patient please.
I have 3 devices sharing my windows profile, pc, mobile and xbox one. All was great until my office 365 and outlook stopped syncing. I did my best to resolve it and ultimately got sucked into the microsoft lab rat troubleshooting scenario. Because of those steps I have more issues all microsoft server side related.

In trying to resolve the issue support had me jumping through hoops as you can imagine. I had no fear because I use macrium reflect. Well, pc is fine but now I have 2 address books, mobile does not sync with my pc and I have 2 user accounts causing the problem.

1. The original account associated to my username yahoo email.
2. New outlook email that is both a full account and alias of the original which is causing the problem.
3. Naturally, I now have dual contacts on my phone and only 1 set on the PC which is not complete but I am not concerned at this point with what I lose only that I can resolve the issue.

I would like to keep the outlook and ditch the original but I can't delete the original or change it because the 2nd (outlook) is an alias of the first. I am chasing my tail here and can't find a solution. I feel I could delete the outlook created curing the tech support fiasco and that would resolve all the address book problems and none existent notifications from mobile to pc but then I lose all my saved emails and contacts that function perfectly inside of outlook.

Thoughts and advice please, Andre

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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 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

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.