Windows 10: User accounts and Microsoft accounts

Discus and support User accounts and Microsoft accounts in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Our genealogy club has a room with a few PCs that members may use to access online databases the club pays for. With Windows 7, members use a flash... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by tarascon, Sep 23, 2015.

  1. TARASCON
    tarascon Win User

    User accounts and Microsoft accounts


    Our genealogy club has a room with a few PCs that members may use to access online databases the club pays for. With Windows 7, members use a flash drive for data transfer between their home PC and a club PC.

    If a member had a Microsoft account and could log in to a club PC with that account, OneDrive could be used instead of the (old-fashioned, clunky) flash drive.

    But from what I can tell, the Windows 10 club PC would have to have an account already set up, that was connected to the Microsoft account. We'd have to define an account on each PC for each member who wanted to use OneDrive. That doesn't sound like a good idea after all.

    Is there any way to use different Microsoft accounts from the same PC user account?

    :)
     
    tarascon, Sep 23, 2015
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  2. HARSHAVARDHAN RATHOD
    Harshavardhan Rathod Win User

    Confused user and microsoft accounts

    Hi Safin,

    We are glad to know that you were able to fix the issue on your own.

    Thank you for sharing the resolution with us.

    Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are happy to assist you.

    Thank you.
     
    Harshavardhan Rathod, Sep 23, 2015
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  3. SAFIN777
    Safin777 Win User
    Confused user and microsoft accounts

    My ever helpful husband updated my laptop to windows 10. I was previously and happily on windows 7, having successfully avoided 8. I resigned myself to the upgrade but I can't make head nor tail of windows 10 yet and its taking me forever to find anything

    Next he helpfully created user accounts on the same laptop. The laptop was previously without separate users. He couldn't find my microsoft account and set his own up. Mine was added later.

    Now I find all "my" laptop stuff - documents, photos, desktop, everything basically, belongs to his account and I have no access to it from my account. I managed to reset my browser (Chrome was luckily signed in so that and saved data associated with it
    was movable). I changed his account from administrator to standard and upgraded mine to administrator.

    How do I sort this mess out? Can I just go back to a point before the users were created and start again? Can we change names/microsoft accounts associated with each user?
     
    Safin777, Sep 23, 2015
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  4. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member

    User accounts and Microsoft accounts

    Yep. Settings, then Accounts, then click on Sign in with a local account instead. That will remove the existing MS login and convert the account to use a local login. Then new person logs in on the local PC account, then goes to Settings, then Accounts, then clicks on something like Sign in a with a Microsoft account instead and converts the local account back to Microsoft login. Then before they sign out, they go back and convert it back to a local account.

    You only asked if there was a way - not a practical way.

    They can always just use the OneDrive website from Firefox or Edge or Internet Explorer to log into their personal OneDrive cloud. Personally, if it were me, I would rather just use a flash drive.
     
    NavyLCDR, Sep 23, 2015
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  5. XWEAPONX
    XweAponX Win User
    Yah that would work, but then you will have to set up the Onedrive account too. It would take about 30 minutes for the account to populate into the PC, it took mine almost an hour, but mine is filled. I actually was moving a bunch of images from my Dropbox into the OneDrive, which had 40 more GBs. The files copied fast to OneDrive, but It took several days for the changes to reflect on the OneDrive and DropBox sites.
     
    XweAponX, Sep 23, 2015
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  6. TARASCON
    tarascon Win User
    It's not sounding like the tie-in with Microsoft accounts is a good reason to upgrade to Windows 10, for our club computers. I'll keep looking.
     
    tarascon, Apr 5, 2018
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