Windows 10: Windows Hello won't let me change my username

Dear Microsoft Support Team or whoever it may concern,


As a computer owner, I decided I wanted to use Windows Hello for its built-in computer sensor. Aside from that, I don't want my real name to show up as my username for safety reasons. The only way I can use the fingerprint sensor is if I activate Windows Hello. Is there a way I can customize my username and use the fingerprint sensor at the same time without changing my Microsoft Account Identity?


Hoping for an answer,


Matthew Hinchy

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Hello NavyLCDR,
Thanks for your post - I was afraid of a HDD failure too... but it seems so strange on an eight-day-old
laptop than has not been mistreated. Not impossible, of course.

Anyway, now we have managed to re-install Windows 10, we will watch out for further issues, and should things continue going wrong, the shop has agreed to take the laptop back within the next three weeks, although they are now out of stock, and my daughter really likes it. Maybe it will be OK, though.

Hello dalchina,
OK, thanks for the warning!
My daughter is just preparing to create a new disk image. She was getting quite paranoid, so she created another Username and User Account, and thus won´t use the old disk-image anyway.

The Username change that triggered this whole issue was done following Microsoft´s indications using
netplwiz. It was the single user/administrator name - there are no further users on the laptop.
My other daughter suggested that the Username change caused this Win10 confusion, but there shouldn´t really be any HDD trouble caused.
We shall see...

Cheers,
Van

 

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Macrium is used frequently in this forum. There are experts in using it to recover drives. It's unclear as to why you are struggling to use it. I had not used it and just tried it for the first time and it went smoothly. Maybe these images might help?

 

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Skype Won´t work... games won´t work...

Making backup and re-format...

Maybe I Install a Windows 7 again, At least, all of my games run smoothly ...Sadness!!

*Banghead