Windows 10: User account now has wrong microsoft email tied to it

I had my local user set up on my windows10 pc. Only a local user, no microsoft email login

Last week my son used the PC to go on and check his email. He used the inbuilt mail program, now it thinks my local user has his email. And it also counts my time on the computer towards his screen time.

I cannot find anywhere to change this, or ideally remove the email from my local account. The other accounts appear to have created users in the user of computer management. But under setting-> Accounts then it still have the microoft account tied to my local user.

The settings->Accounts give me to option to manage his account, but not remove. If I add my own live.com account then this can be removed.

So how do I get his Microsoft account off my PC and free my local user again.

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Windows 10 Mail app - upgrade created a default email account that is incorrect and I can't delete/fix it.

I have been having the same problem, and now my email has stopped working also.

The application is showing my primary outlook email as an exchange based gmail account, which is clearly wrong.

The mail app is now asking me to "fix" the problem, suggesting that I delete and re-add the account which I cannot do as it is the email address tied to my Microsoft Account.

I would also greatly appreciate a fix.

 

Accounts on Windows 10 have major problems

fwiw

When you make the install with your email login... it shortens that email address down for the user name,,, user\rjohn I am guessing that is the beginning of your email address ? that's the official Microsoft account - tied to your email address.

You might look in Control Panel / user accounts .... and click on manage another account... there you will see everybody that has an actual login account.

 

Hello vexorg, *Smile

You might check using step 3 in Option Two of the tutorial below to see if your son's email is listed under your "Email & app accounts". If so, deleting it will remove it.

*Arrow Add or Delete Account in Windows 10 Mail app Windows 10 Tutorials

 

Didn't work. I had already deleted the email account as I didn't want the thousands of junk emails on my drive.

The problem seems to be the Microsoft account below that email option in step 3. I cant disassociated that from my local account. If I go into manage that account then it takes me to his Microsoft web account manager.

 

Just to verify, check to see if your account is showing as a local account or Microsoft account in case he may have switched your account to a Microsoft account by mistake.

*Arrow How to Tell if Local Account or Microsoft Account in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

 

There seems to be a difference in opinion.

If I check with control panel->User accounts, I see my name with "Local Account, Administrator". There are no other accounts if I try to "manage another accounts".

If I check with settings->Accounts->Your info, Then I have my name and his email under it.

Under settings->accounts->Email and apps accounts, then his microsoft account is listed, and only manage option, no delete/remove.

If I go to computer management->Local users and groups->Users, then I see my user as a local user, plus all the family users with a little arrow point down on top of them. If I delete the extra users then they just reappear after a restart.

 

In Settings->Accounts->Your info, do you see a "Sign in with a local account instead" or "Stop signing in to all Microsoft apps automatically link" link?

 

No, that's option is not there. See images of settings and control panel.

I cant remove that Microsoft account in the apps part. And if I go into Microsoft family, it still shows him active on my pc when I'm on it.

I've searched the registry for his email address, I cant find where windows stores that link to his account.

 

Hmm, I'm not sure how to remove an account from "Accounts used by other apps".

You might see if having him remove your PC from his Microsoft account like in Option Three below may remove it.

*Arrow Sign in to your Microsoft account

 

I've tried that. The PC is just added back in as soon as I log on again.

 

I admit that I'm stumped as well. *Confused

 

Well, gave up. And reading about on other sites, that admin email address seems impossible to change. Not helped by my PC seeming to be stuck between Microsoft account and local account.

Created a new admin user. Copied all my files and set it all up again. Deleted the old user.

Good as new, well, once I get everything back in place again.

 

That is not applicable here, yours was a normal administrator account.

It's referring to the built-in Administrator account getting linked to an MS account, something that's possible in a few exceptional circumstances and impossible to undo.

 

It was a normal admin account, but something went wrong with it when my son logged in. Maybe because windows 10 was an upgrade from admin account on windows 7, it was never tied to a Microsoft account. Or maybe because he has monitoring by Microsoft family. Either way it screwed up my local admin account.