Windows 10: Win10 Mail App Put PW on PC

Discus and support Win10 Mail App Put PW on PC in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Woke up this morning to find the PC was updating... a process that took 45+ minutes. I assume this is what's called the Anniversary update. Since over... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by elt, Sep 22, 2016.

  1. ELT
    elt Win User

    Win10 Mail App Put PW on PC


    Woke up this morning to find the PC was updating... a process that took 45+ minutes. I assume this is what's called the Anniversary update. Since over the past few days Windows 2012 mail finally stopped working I finally signed up with the Win10 mail app. Entering the PW it said something about the PC but I didn't quite understand it. That was dumb because there's now a PW on the PC itself and I don't want one.

    In account settings I told it to never ask me for a PW when I come back from being away... but that setting does nothing.

    Any ideas how I can get rid of that PW on the PC?

    Thanks

    (if the suggestion is to jump through the on-line MS security hoops... AHHHHH!!! I tried getting on line to see if I could make any changes but MS's security check system seems to be broken. 15 years ago I had MSN internet with a number of accounts. I picked the C user account to be the backup should something happen to the E user. The C email account shows up to send a security code to... but after 4 tries... no mail is sent there because it no longer seems to be associated with the E user which once was the admin for all the MSN users. I can't reset the security info because I only have one phone... and it says that number is already in the system... and on and on it goes... but my main question is how do I remove the PW from the PC itself?)

    :)
     
  2. RonGawel Win User

    Sync problems with AOL account on Windows 10 Mail app

    this only happens with aol... gmail is ok..

    i have all current windows updates...

    no error message..

    the problem is when i try to use wind 10 mail app, it will not synch with aol acct.. it syncs with gmail.

    i tried deleting aol acct using the wind 10 mail app and it deletes.. then when i add it back, the sign in dropdown has a password that is wrong.. ( too many characters). i delete that pw and put in correct one but it defers to incorrect stored pw. it
    wont accept another pw...

    i tried reinstalling wind 10, deleting aol acct, to no avail
     
    RonGawel, Sep 22, 2016
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  3. DBairddb Win User
    WIN10 password lost but logged in with picture pw

    I log into WIN10 using the picture pw. I have forgotten the other pw. How can I reset the forgotten pw to allow me to make a pw recovery disc and avoid future pw problems?

    Thanks

    DB
     
    DBairddb, Sep 22, 2016
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  4. dalchina New Member

    Win10 Mail App Put PW on PC

    For anyone puzzled by the above it seems PW = password.

    - that setting works for me, and applies to resuming from sleep. Could you try that explicitly?

    If you are logging in as a local user (which I assume you are) please see
    Password of User Account - Remove in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

    from the Tutorial section which is full of clear guides, and which it's often worth searching and worth being aware of.
     
    dalchina, Sep 22, 2016
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  5. ELT
    elt Win User
    Thanks for the speedy reply dalchina. Yup... that's how I found out I suddenly needed a password after 15 years of not having one. Image my surprise. Luckily I guessed which one of the 100+ I must have. I'll give your suggestion a try. Win10 Anniversary threw me for a loop. I had been using Classic Shell (a win7 substitute for the lost start menu on Win8) and now even Control Panel and the search/run box was gone. >>>>>>>UPDATE: I did get rid of the user PW by signing in with the "local account". I don't even know when MS added the network password as an option. I only found out by accident when I started using the Win10 mail app. Thanks again!!
     
  6. dalchina New Member
    Strange- I was using C Shell before the AU, and still am- no issues. Have you tried reinstalling it?
     
    dalchina, Sep 22, 2016
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  7. ELT
    elt Win User
    I did install the newest version and it doesn't work. The version that Anniversary said was incompatible was over a year old... when I first got Win8 after using Vista... and spent the first week swearing at it. UPDATE: I feel my PC is gaslighting me. When I got rid of my password, the PC logged me out and when I went back in... Classic Shell was back... and with it my option to hibernate which was missing from the Win10 Anniversary powers options.
     
  8. dalchina New Member

    Win10 Mail App Put PW on PC

    I must admit to being somewhat confused about what you're experiencing.

    I'm wondering if you're actually logging in as a different user?

    I'm using the latest Classic Shell -4.3 - no problems.
     
    dalchina, Sep 23, 2016
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  9. ELT
    elt Win User
    As I noted above, I got classic shell running... but it only happened after I was able to get rid of the PW on my account. At that point, Windows logged me out, and when I went back to desktop (there's only one account on the machine), classic shell was running. Don't ask me why. It may have needed for me to log out of my account to become active.
     
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