Windows 10: What is this "feature" and how do I get rid of it?

I just rebooted my computer (updated to W10 about 2 weeks ago), and now all of the sudden it wants me to enter a password, for some kind of Microsoft account – this is before I can get to my desktop. They do cleverly tell you how to reset the password at live.com, and I do seem to have some kind of account there, which has something to do with having asked a question on a MS support website (9 months ago), or more probably because I recently Googled a technical problem and the answer, available at an MS webpage, required me to login using my "Microsoft account".

I really do not want to have to log in to an MS account every time I boot up -- I'm willing to stop using MS information pages if that's the price. I cannot figure out how I got into this forced-login situation. Nothing obvious shows up in the Startup option of Task Manager. Under "Accounts" for require sign-in, it says "never".

There are untested options. Under Accounts-Email and Accounts, I might click "Manage my Microsoft account"; it tells me I need to verify my identity on the machine and gives me an option to do so; I have the option to sign in with a local account. I might change the password or set a PIN. But since I have no idea what these things do and there is a reasonable chance that by initiation one of these processes I will be forced to do something else, I'm rather reluctant to do any experimenting.

What I want is that it stops forcing me to log in to some Microsoft account. Is there any way to do this?

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what is this and how do I get rid of it????

Problem popup still there, very annoying move to Windows 10! I guess I still have a few days to go back to W 7.

Not happy at all with the move!!!!!!!

 

what is this and how do I get rid of it????

Thanks Amit,

The message is a popup,

"Windows script host

Can not find script file C:\users\Colm\Downloads\update1.vbs"

The popup shows up randomly after boot up and continues to pop up after it is cancelled, it will not go away!

The Windows 10 upgrade is complete from Windows 7. I followed all MS instructions during the upgrade!

Thanks again for any help here.

 

Login in local or Microsoft account:

Local Account or Microsoft Account - How to Tell in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks; I tried to change to a local account but it insisted that I supply an account name (reasonable) and wouldn't accept my existing account name since it was "in use". Rather than play around with making a temporary bogus administrator account and trying to dig out later, I opted to do a system restore, which undid the damage. I still have no idea how this happened, but maybe I will get lucky and it won't arise again.