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Discus and support windows 10 added a second user account sort of in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Hi, I set up a lot of pc's and I've had this problem before with windows 8.1. I set up a single user account with Microsoft account (email and... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by zpanama, Apr 2, 2016.

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    windows 10 added a second user account sort of


    Hi,
    I set up a lot of pc's and I've had this problem before with windows 8.1. I set up a single user account with Microsoft account (email and password). Then I want the pc to never ask for password, so I run userpasswords2 and uncheck so password is never asked for and we go right to desktop on startup. I'm setting up 2 laptops right now and 1 works fine.

    On the second laptop, windows 10 created a quasi-user in addition to the user account. quasi has same name, same email, and it doesn't exist in control panels/user. It has a shorter version of the user name when I sign in, i.e., name is Rancho and it auto displays ranch as the user name on log in screen, so I know Windows did this somehow.

    When I turn on laptop or restart, instead of going straight to desktop, it shows log in screen. it says it cannot connect (connection is wi-fi, no other pc's have connect problem), it says there is a problem and I have to sign in. it has 2 accounts in lower left corner (both have the same account name and email). if I click on the top, it is the ms account, it supplies the email and logs in with just a password. If I click on the ranch account, it puts ranch in the user name, logs in with same password.

    I'm guessing I have to add administrator account #2, delete the messed up account #1 and recreate it, then delete #2. trying to avoid that fun if possible. and it didn't work on windows 8.1 when this happened.

    any ideas on how this silliness happens? Is there a fix?
    thanks, tom

    :)
     
    zpanama, Apr 2, 2016
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  2. Windows 10 mail app crashes

    Today the windows 10 email app would quit seconds after opening. I tried everything that I could find and nothing seemed to work. I then decided to open the user settings and I deleted all windows email accounts from the app.

    I next opened the Mail App and added an account and synced the email. While waiting I went back to the user settings and added a second account. Now the Windows 10 works again.
     
    StevenBarlett, Apr 2, 2016
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  3. Adding a second local user account

    If your first account is a Microsoft account, some of the options might have different names:

    Steps:

    settings

    Family and other users

    Add someone else (under other users)

    Person doesn't have an email

    Add without Microsoft Account

    then fill out the wizard.

    If not, then Sathish's article will apply.
     
    jcomputer21, Apr 2, 2016
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  4. windows 10 added a second user account sort of

    no solution but I have standard user and admin accts. both using the same PWL on both my Windows 10 OS on this PC on separate NTFS volumes and it did that also .

    I use std user accts. on the web to keep some nasty's out things they don't need to be in like the MBR or syst 32 etc. *really
     
    blutos cousin, Apr 2, 2016
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