Windows 10: To update my email address for my Microsoft Account I get locked out for 30 days ????

To update my email address for my Microsoft Account I get locked out for 30 days ????

My old email address with Bell Canada is defunct so I can't sign in to my Home Network to WIFI connect a Printer.

Do I really have to wait 30 flippin' days to get authorized again. Please tell me there is a more reasonable approach ?

P.S. don't try to email me as that address xx.sympatico is non-operational until I can get access to change it.


Thanks for any replies,

Jim

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Locked out of account for 30 days with Lumia phone

I have just updated my windows 10 Lumia 550. All of the apps are ghosted and I believe I've got to sync my account. I have tried this with the *** Email address is removed for privacy *** email address. I am then asked to provide an alternative email address linked to the account, that
I have not used in years.

I then changed my *** Email address is removed for privacy *** alternative address to an email account that I use and find that I am locked out for 30 days, thus making my phone useless for 30 days as well. Has anyone else had this infuriating problem?

 

Unable to update Windows account details for 30 days

Original Title - Windows Account

Why is this system so complicated and so difficult to use. The system suggested I check my account details when logging into my Outlook account and so, like an idiot i did. Now, it has stopped me checking any of my account details for 30 days - WHY? After
going round in circles trying to find the right suggested answers to my question (I'd like to actually talk to someone as oppose to converse with an idiotic server somewhere in lack-of-commonsenseland) I finally found an option to cancel the suggested secondary
email address but, to do this, it has to send an email to my old secondary email address i.e. one I do not have access to. Bloody useless and a waste of my time as the whole point is.......I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO MY SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESS. I suppose I'll
now have to wait 30 days to see if it locks me out for another 30 days and so on and so on. Rant over, it will soon be Christmas. Any way around this?

 

Unauthorized Emails from my account?

It is more than likely that your email account was hacked, either by a virus sniffing your password, or just simply hacked.

Either way, change your password on your email account. Unfortunately the damage by already be done. They already have your contact list and your email address associated with that contact list. There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send emails to people that come from your address.