Windows 10: Switching Microsoft accounts without creating new profile broken?

Hi, I have also posted this on the TN forums so apaologies if anyone is reading this a second time but the wider I cast the net and all that......

I have stumbled upon a big problem for me and wonder if it is a bug or by design.


I have a microsoft account that I was using for insider and testing and recently upgraded my machine to RTM. Machine is fine in every sense apart from one thing. I wanted to unlink my account and associate my account with a different Microsoft account.


Old account example L: someone@something.com

new account example L: foobar@anything.com


To do this I specifically wish to retain my actual account in Windows (i.e. same profile) as I have a lot of software and other things I don't want to set up again under a new profile. So...... I unlinked my MS account and converted the profile on my computer to a local account (e.g. name = foobar).


I then rebooted. Just to be sure I went in to L: someone@someting.com at login.live.com, went to the account settings and removed the machine from the list of devices associated with the account.


I then went into settings on teh machine and chose to link the account to a microsoft account. This time to L: foobar@anyting.com. It asked me for the password for the second microsoft account, asked me for my local account password and then told me that all was good and I had to logoff and back on again for it to take effect. I did so and low and behold the account associated with the profile is not L: foobar@anything.com but has gone back to the original L: someone@something.com.


I rebooted and it's still the same. Even though I explicitly removed the account and also removed the association online it refused to link it to the other account and worse - it actually reassociated it with the old account. A major security concern for one and for the other thing it is most annoying that it seems that the only way to achieve what I want is to create a brand new profile on the machine and link it to the second MS account. This will therefore result in a lot of work, the loss of my profile cached information (that I want to keep), setting up multiple pieces of software that are linked to the "profile" such as my cloud storage.


Not good :-(


Anyone else have this problem?


Cheers.

Paul

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Hi Shakthi,


Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

To check if the issue occurs on new User Profile, I suggest you to switch the Microsoft Account to Local Account and then create a new Microsoft Account using the same email id.

Step 1:



To Switch to local user account follow these steps:

a. Press “Windows key +W”.

b. Type “users” without quotes in the search box.

c. Then select “Users” from the left panel.

d. You will get an option “Switch to a Local account” right below your user account name.

e. Select “Switch to a local account” option.

f. Enter the required details.

g. Then login to the local account and check how it works.

Step 2:

Now create a new Microsoft Account using the same email id and check if you face any further issues.

To create a new User Account follow these steps:

1. Click on Start.

2. Click on Settings.

3. Type ‘Add, delete and manage other user accounts’ in search box.

4. Now click on ‘Add someone else to this pc’.

5. And follow the instructions to create a new User Account.

Keep us posted for further assistance, we will be glad to help.

 

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Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.
To check if the issue occurs on new User Profile, I suggest you to switch the Microsoft Account to Local Account and then create a new Microsoft Account using the same email id.



Step 1:

To Switch to local user account follow these steps:

a. Press “Windows key +W”.

b. Type “users” without quotes in the search box.

c. Then select “Users” from the left panel.

d. You will get an option “Switch to a Local account” right below your user account name.

e. Select “Switch to a local account” option.

f. Enter the required details.

g. Then login to the local account and check how it works.

Step 2:

Now create a new Microsoft Account using the same email id and check if you face any further issues.

To create a new User Account follow these steps:

1. Click on Start.

2. Click on Settings.

3. Type ‘Add, delete and manage other user accounts’ in search box.

4. Now click on ‘Add someone else to this pc’.

5. And follow the instructions to create a new User Account.

Keep us posted for further assistance, we will be glad to help