Windows 10: Trying to remove/change Microsoft account associated with user

Discus and support Trying to remove/change Microsoft account associated with user in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; My daughter’s Microsoft account has become attached to my user on my computer. I’ve gone to the settings, accounts, your info and the solution used to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/MastaFnog, Feb 27, 2022.

  1. Trying to remove/change Microsoft account associated with user


    My daughter’s Microsoft account has become attached to my user on my computer. I’ve gone to the settings, accounts, your info and the solution used to be to change to a local user or something similar. There is no such option anymore. Even the email and accounts tab has nothing. The account there has no remove option like others do. There is only Manage. There doesn’t seem to be a change email option either. I am not sure what else to try and searching online has been a huge bust. Is there any way to remove or change it?

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    /u/MastaFnog, Feb 27, 2022
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  2. Vesao Win User

    Remove account

    I suggest you backup your personalized files first before removing the account.
    To delete an account, follow these steps:
    1. Press WIN + X keys and click Command Prompt (Admin) from the menu.
    2. Type the following command and press Enter. Replace test with the name of your sister's account. Code:
     
    Vesao, Feb 27, 2022
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  3. trying to remove user account

    Hi Jack,

    Deleting a user account in a Windows device can be done by an administrator. Before removing the user account, make sure that you are using an administrator account to avoid errors.

    Follow these steps to remove a user account in your computer:

    • Open the Control Panel.
    • Click on User Accounts and then Select User Accounts.
    • Click on Manage User Accounts.
    • Choose the account that you want to delete.
    • Click on Delete the account.
    • Choose if you want to keep the files or delete the files in the user account that you'll be removing.
    • Click on Delete Account button to complete the process.

    Let us know if further assistance is needed.
     
    Darleen Pen, Feb 27, 2022
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  4. Trying to remove/change Microsoft account associated with user

    How to change email address associated with a local user account

    I have two local user accounts on my Windows 10 workstation, let's call them 'A' and 'B'. Each of these user accounts have valid separate Microsoft online accounts, let's call them 'X' and 'Y' respectively, however these Microsoft accounts were deliberately
    not used or associated with the local accounts during their creation.

    User 'A' has the primary email account 'X' associated with it, as displayed in 'Your Info'. User 'B' was also (incorrectly and unintentionally) updated so it is now also associated with the primary email account 'X'. Therefore, now both local user accounts
    are trying to connect to Microsoft account 'X' to sync, which is obviously not desired.

    What I am wanting to do is to change the email address associated with the local user account 'B' to use email address 'Y' instead of 'X', without having to delete and recreate the local user account.
    I can't add an alias or any other convoluted solution to the Microsoft online accounts as both X & Y accounts are still valid are meant to be separate so making changes to the respective accounts online doesn't make any sense. I can add email account
    'Y' to the list in "Accounts used by other apps" but cannot remove account 'X' from the list. I also can find no way to change the email address in the 'sync your settings' options.

    For some strange reason there appears to be no logical way to do this. I have tried a few changes in the registry, however, they did not persist so I am guessing the changes are required elsewhere.
    What am I missing, because I expected this to be a reasonably simple problem to resolve?

    Thank you in advance for any assistance.
     
    iwalkinshadow, Feb 27, 2022
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