Windows 10: Same address twice in User Accounts

Using Netplwiz, I notice in my User Accounts I have the same User Name twice. Actually it is the same email address twice. Both are administrators under Group. My question is, can I remove one of those without having my computer going into meltdown. Please advise.

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Changing administrator email address on windows 10.

To prevent spam email addresses are automatically removed from any posts.

Log on with the old account.

Go to Settings > Accounts. Switch your account to be a Local Account and set a password.

Log out and log in as that user.

Go to Settings > Accounts again. Switch to a Microsoft Account and the dialogue will allow you to enter a new Microsoft Account credential

You are changing the account type of the same physical account (twice) so all settings etc. should remain the same.

You could have changed the email address of the Microsoft Account itself, the preferable option if you made any purchases with it. Add an alias of the new address to the old account, make the alias the primary user and then delete the old address. The same
principle applies as it remains the same actual account even though the credentials change.

 

RE. Set up of Microsoft 365 on Nokia Lumia 530

If the office365 account is the same as the Microsoft account address, there is nothing that you need to do. It fails because you're adding the same account twice.

 

Maybe I can get an answer here. In User Control, I have two exact email addresses under User Names. Under Groups, both are said to be Administrators. In the far left of the email addresses, there are two distinct little pictures. The first appears to be some sort of tv screen behind a little mans head and the second one has a little globe behind a mans head.
My questions is, can I delete one of these email addresses or user names?

 

Hello Maggidon, *Smile

Please go ahead and post a screenshot showing this to see what it may be. Be sure to black out your email address before posting the screenshot.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...en-forums.html

 

Taking a screenshot and getting rid of the email addresses seems to prove more difficult than the original question. The best way to explain this from my perspective, it only to say again, that under the User Name there are two exact same email addresses. I suppose I could delete one or the other and hopefully my computer will not explode.
If this is unsolvable apart from the screenshot, we'll just let it roll Brink. It's not hurting anything to my knowledge. Thanks for your reply!

 

I'd say to let it be for now since it's not causing any issues. Without seeing a screenshot, I can't verify if it's safe to delete without causing an issue.

 

Brink, I can black out the email addresses. It's time to roll over into bed here but I'll upload a picture of that for you tomorrow night if that's ok with yourself.

 

Sure, that's fine. *Smile

 

Here we go Brink. See if this is any help in order to understand what I'm saying.

 

It looks like you have one (top) that is an account on your local PC, and the other (bottom) may be for a network or domain account.

 

Good! What would you do if you had this on your system, leave it or delete one of the two and if so, which one?

 

I'd leave it until you found out exactly what it was for.

You might see if using the tutorial below to view account details may help reveal what it's from.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

Did what the Tutorial says but as what to do with it remains out of my league. It therefore means I'll simply leave it alone since it causes me no grief. Should little bursts of blue smoke begin to ascend from the computer then I'll reach for a bucket of cold water. Thank you Brink for your assistance.

 

Anytime. If you like, post back with the results, and I'll be happy to look at it to see if anything may stand out for this. It doesn't show anything personal.