MS Account questions

Jacee said:

Yes I am

Then I still don't follow or understand what it is your trying to tell me?

If OH is still watching: There are two available types of Windows (let's call it W10) account that you can create on your PC:
* local W10 account: with no link to the outside world, you can call it what you want, no internet access required to function, or
* Microsoft (MS) W10 account: This is tied to a 'web' account (like your account on TenForums) that you either create during the initial Windows installation, or maybe beforehand using a different PC. If the latter, you can do that at one of the (confusingly many) MS web pages, for example https://account.microsoft.com/account .

For that initial MS W10 creation on your PC to work, you need an internet connection, and a functioning email address[*], or (apparently, and I did not know this) a working phone number, or you can create a new (presumably MS) email address - the options are almost endless! Hence the comment that an MS account 'is' an email address, whilst a local one is not (that really means an MS account requires an email address (or phone no.), a local one does not). Once up and running, the internet connection is not necessary for the MS W10 account to function on the PC (I think). But the MS W10 account creation also creates a web-accessible MS account (with same name and email/phone).

Your screenshot clearly shows you (or someone on your behalf) created a local W10 account, called 'MOORE' (which requires some messing about these days). So I guess at that stage you didn't have an MS web account, but you have since created one. You can log in to that from any PC (or device or operating system, come to that), so talk about being 'logged in' (or out) has to clearly define whether one means the web account or the PC W10 account (which may be local or MS).

So when you say (in post 23) Check my screen shot I took before I actually logged out. Same as yours. But I was still logged in, you may (I'm guessing here) mean you took a screen shot while you were logged in to the web account, then logged out of it, but were in some way still logged in (to W10 on the PC perhaps?). Which would be correct: one can stay logged in to whichever W10 account one likes, independent of your login state on the web account.

If you want to get the benefits (such as they may be) of using the MS account (that you just created on the web) on your PC, you will now have to create a matching MS W10 account on the PC, usng the same username and password. A link to instructions on how to do that was given in post #17, to which you responded 'where and how?'. Your response is hard to understand, as one simply has to read all the instructions and make whatever choices are required.

I may have wasted my time trying to spell it out here, but one never knows! I didn't notice that the OP's last post was a week ago - oh well.

It kept me out of mischief anyway - Martin

PS[*] I created my first MS account (it may have been a Passport then) on the web years ago, and as I did not want MS to know or in any way get their mitts on my normal email address, I just entered a made-up one. This worked OK (MS Windows accounts did not exist then) until some time later when I wanted to change something, at which point MS wanted to send me an email confirming I was who I said I was - and of course the email could not be sent. I can't recall how I got out of that, I probably discarded the account.

@Berton: I have since taken out a 'sacrificial' mail.com address for all those organisations I don't trust (or know nothing about). Now, if only my Compuserve address still worked...