Windows 10: Why is startup repair refusing my correct password?

So I've been getting BSODs for 10 hours now. My next step is to try using recovery/repair tools like startup repair.It asks for the password to my microsoft account, but doesn't accept it. I've reset it twice now, and tried using the new password, but it doesn't accept it.The computer does not have a local admin account for it to even be asking for the password for. It is connected to the internet, so it should be getting any password resets I do. Yes it continues to say the password that it shouldn't be asking for in the first place is wrong. So what do I do now?

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Windows 10 Password for Startup Repair

Hi,

Startup repair keeps on rejecting my windows 10 password and I am very sure it is my correct password as I use it in logging in to microsoft website. I have two step verification on. Does that affect the password? I tried generate app password but still
not working.

 

Onedrive Refusing Correct Password Everyday

I have two desktops, a 2008 Windows 7 and a 2019 Windows 10. I logged into OneDrive on the older computer and set it up there, so that I can share between the two until the old one fails for good.

The problem is this: Every morning after shutting down the Windows 7 desktop and sleeping the Windows 10, OneDrive makes me log in again on both computers. I enter my correct password. Absolutely--NO typos, NO caps lock error, etc.,
absolutely the correct password. OneDrive refuses the correct password. Same password for both desktops. When I finally get into OneDrive one, I'm onto it on the other.

So I do the reset thing--they email me a seven digit number, I reset the password. When I do this, I first try the refused correct password. It says, NO, you've already used that password. So it did recognize the password, just thought it was old even though
it should have been current.

How can I stop this behavior? The failure is costing me at least fifteen minutes everyday.

Possibly related info:

The Windows 10 Credentials Manager shows one OneDrive Credential with a User Name that looks encrypted (it's actually my email address) and the password hidden (dots). It always, even before I fail to log into OneDrive, says "Modified Today".

It also shows one MicrosoftAccountuser=[my email address]. For User name it lists my correct email address, and the password is hidden (dots).

Coincident with the OneDrive password behavior, every time I log into this forum, Microsoft refuses my correct password, even one day old. Same routine, I reset, etc. This one, too, even before I fail and reset, always says "Modified today". I fully expect
that when I first try to post this problem, the forum will refuse my yesterday's correct password and force me to reset it.

So again and finally, how can I stop these behaviors?

Thanks,

fg

 

admin password?

You can reset the Admin Password using Windows XP repair; See Here for step by step.

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