Windows 10: W10 upgrade changed my usual login password to that of my e-mail...

Hi *Smile

This is my first post, so I'm very sorry if I'm posting this thread in the wrong section.

Basically, when I got the Windows 10 upgrade and synced my mail (@live.com), it automatically changed my usual login (for when laptop is sleep and then wakes up) from the usual one I had in Windows 7, to that of my e-mail address. Is there any way to reverse this?

Kind regards,
Ice.

:)

 

Unable to verify identity in Windows 10 - goes into infinite loop

Thanks, Karla.

I may not have explained things well enough. My 'old' W10 login and Microsoft a/c login were my old e-mail address, which is disappearing soon. I wished to change both W10 and MS logins to my new e-mail. There is a procedure for doing this elsewhere on
the MS Community which involves setting the new e-mail as secondary alias (in MS account), re-starting, going back to MS account and making the new e-mail the primary alias; restarting. This procedure WORKED for 3 out of 4 users on my PC (not always immediately,
had to wait a day or so for the change to take effect). Problem arises with the 4th user where I get the 'you need to verify your identity'. When I click on this, W10 asks for the password for the 'old' e-mail (secondary alias) and even though I enter this
correctly, W10 goes into an infinite loop. See previous screen-shots.

So I do not have 2 Windows logins, one for the primary alias and the other for the secondary alias, just the one login for my primary alias. So if I delete the W10 account as you suggest I am concerned that this will risk loss of all my pictures, music,
docs, etc.

As an experiment, I deleted the secondary alias from my MS account and pressed again on 'verify your identity'. As before, the W10 screen has my old secondary alias (not user-changeable). This time on entering the password for this (now deleted) MS account
I get a red error message 'the password is incorrect'. This error message is erroneous - it should say 'no such MS account' or similar.

I am coming to the view that deleting my W10 account may be the only way forward (I think that's in effect what you are saying in your recent reply). I shall have to back up all my files first, of course.

One question is: if I delete my existing W10 account, will Microsoft allow me to set up a new account with the same Microsoft account name as before?

 

Nokia Messaging & Password Problem & GMail

Hi,



I know this has been a while but - did this ever get fixed?



The reason I ask: The workaround I came up with was to leave my e-mail password "good" (with special characters in it), but changed my email.nokia.com login password to something without special characters. Then on the Nokia Messaging application, for e-mail
password I put in the email.nokia.com password instead of my actual e-mail password - which worked! EXCEPT: I can't send e-mail. I'm hoping that if all of the passwords match, that will start working.



So - did this behavior ever get changed?



Thanks!

 

Hello Ice, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

It sounds like you setup Windows to sign in with a Microsoft account during the upgrade.

You could switch back to a local account though. However, you won't be able to use any Windows apps that require a Microsoft account while signing it to Windows with a local account unless you also sign in to the Store with your Microsoft account.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

 

Thanks a lot, I've approved your answer *Biggrin

I was just curious if there are any apps you'd recommend? Because as things stand I haven't found any good ones. *Sad

 

You're most welcome. *Smile

I like 7-Zip and CCleaner.

 

Netflix works pretty good too.