Windows 10: User names and microsoft accounts, and a OneDrive question

Discus and support User names and microsoft accounts, and a OneDrive question in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Hello, I am revamping my system as I migrate to Win 10 Microsoft encourages us to use our Microsoft account to sign in. I do have such an account... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by PrestonR, Aug 9, 2015.

  1. PRESTONR
    PrestonR Win User

    User names and microsoft accounts, and a OneDrive question


    Hello,

    I am revamping my system as I migrate to Win 10

    Microsoft encourages us to use our Microsoft account to sign in. I do have such an account because I have an Office 365 account

    I have a desktop and two laptops (one is my wife's) on our home network and would prefer, to keep things simple, that we use the same Microsoft email address as a sign in for all 3 machines. Implied here is that the same password would have be used to access the machines and our Microsoft accounts and email. Does this make sense? Will I be lessening our security? My goal is to set things up so that my wife can go to any of the machines and find the same structures and logins

    AS I understand things, my Office 365 accounts gives each machine access to their own 1 TB oneDrive account. I would like to keep our computers synched with each other. Due to pictures, ebooks, and music we have almost 1 TB of user data. If I can not reduce the data I would have to use more than one OnEDrive folder to hold it. With three machines and three OneDrive accounts is there a way I can keep all of the data synched?

    Please bear with me - both of us are 74 yrs old and not too computer smart

    Thanks for your help

    Preston

    .

    :)
     
    PrestonR, Aug 9, 2015
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  2. HANS-MARTIN S
    Hans-Martin S Win User

    Photos app face recognition and naming people detected

    Jan,

    it is not a question of the device, but a question of the combination device / user account. I have three PCs:

    PC1: 3 user accounts

    - administrator (local accout): naming not possible

    - standard user 1 (Microsoft account): naming not possible

    - standard user 2 (local account): naming possible

    PC2: 3 user accounts

    - administrator (local accout): naming not possible

    - standard user 1 (Microsoft account): naming possible

    - standard user 2 (local account): naming not possible

    PC3: 2 user accounts

    - administrator (local accout): naming possible

    - standard user 1 (Microsoft account): naming not possible

    You are right, for naming the persons, the Photos app must be given access to the contacts stored in the People app. But this is true for all my user accounts, so this can't be the the reason why the naming is not possible for some user accounts.
     
    Hans-Martin S, Aug 9, 2015
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  3. ALAN B
    Alan B Win User
    USER NAME

    You can choose your own user name as it appears on the start screen.

    If you create a new Local account you can choose the user name as it appears on the computer.

    If you create a Microsoft Account then the user name is chosen by Windows.

    If you change a local account to a Microsoft account it retains its original name.

    So the fix (if I understand the question correctly) is to create a local account with the name of your choice then change it to be a Microsoft account.
     
    Alan B, Aug 9, 2015
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