Windows 10: Signed in to Mail app - now account is my Windows Email account

Hi,

Upgraded from Windows 7 to Win 10 and was loving it (was). Saw there was a mail app and thought that would be pretty handy. Signed in and since then, I have to log in to my PC as my email address and password.

I don't want that.

How do I revert my existing user back to a non-Windows live user, with a normal, local account and password?

I am happy to not use the Mail app if that's what it takes, but my concern is that the profile I have now has all my icons and docs and stuff and I don't want to go through the hassle of copying over the profile.

There must be a way to undo this change, but I can't find it.

Thanks

:)

 

Windows 10 Mail

Hi

Thank you for your reply

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  Mail app
  
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  I did not make any changes to outlook email account after installing Windows 10. The setup was – Email account 1 –was primary alias and is the account I signed in with on my laptop. And the account listed in Mail.
  Email account 2 was an alias account which I could not sent an email from through Mail.
  

I may have mucked things though I changed Email account 2 to be primary alias, Consequences - Email account 2 is now sign on account for laptop but does not appear on Mail for dispatch of emails. And trying to add Email account 2. I now receive the
message “mail error 0x8000ffff”

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  After installing Windows 10
  

Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

The MAIL app on W10 does not synchronise @outlook.com account - error 0x85050041

I solved my problem by deleting the accounts from the MAIL app and then I went to settings, my account, sign-in with a local account (instead of Microsoft account) and the checked for updates, restarted my computer and added my email accounts back to the
MAIL app...it works fine now

p.s. I dont have an antivirus software installed

 

Awesome, thank you so much.

Stupid that you can't get to that screen you showed from Control Panel / User Accounts (at least, I couldn't find that there and had to search for Accounts to find it).

Also 10/10 for the redacting and highlighting... I do it the same way at work *Smile

Again, thank you!!

 

Control Panel is gradually being replaced with the Settings App.