Incorrect Username Appeared Today When I Logged In

Perhaps both your user account and the one you set up on that other computer are using the same email address & they've just synced for the first time.

Denis

1 I do suggest checking the other computer to confirm the situation before taking any action. I cannot explain your symptoms any other way so I really do think that the same MSAccount is being used on both.

2 On the other computer, add another account.
- I assume this is going to be an MSAccount-linked user account with your friend's email address but, if your friend does not need any MSAccount facilities, then just make it a local user account.
Add Local Account or Microsoft Account - TenForumsTutorials
- It can be a standard or Admin user account to suit your friend's needs.
Change Account Type - TenForumsTutorials
- Write its password down now - somewhere accessible yet secure.

3 Then create a local, password-protected Admin account on the other computer so that there will always be a way in if the day-to-day account ever gets corrupted.
- Write its password down now - somewhere accessible yet secure.

4 Then use File explorer to go into the folder C:\Users\<WhateverTheOriginalAccountWasCalled>\Documents, Music, etc to copy across all the saved files into the corresponding folders of the newly-created account. You'll need to use an Admin account to do this and I suggest using the Admin account you created in step #3.

5 Then I suggest just disabling the original account. You could delete it but disabling leaves the decision for a while in case there are any queries later on.
- You need to positively identify the username of the original account. Run this command in a PowerShell or Command window

Code:

net user

and look at the results.
- They'll be several entries that Windows created itself so don't alter anything you do not recognise.
- There will be the name of the original account in a shortened form which is normally the first five characters of the relevant MSAccount's Full Name [the one you see when you log onto it online].
- Only when you are certain that you have the right username [shortened form], run this command using that username

Code:

net user UserNameShortenedForm /active:no

so if the user account was called Bart, the command would be

Code:

net user Bart /active:no

- If you cannot positively identify the original account in the net user results then post those results and I'll talk you through it.
- If you decide to delete it instead, use the procedure in
Delete User Account - TenForumsTutorials
but, when you get asked if you want to delete all its files, I suggest you say no and just make a note to do that in a few months.

6 You will probably end up having to help set up your friend's new user account because it will have lost, for example, application settings and downloaded Apps.

Best of luck,
Denis

Bart,

I have never changed an email address for an MSAccount-linked user account.
- I have had a look through the Tutorial index [you'll see a link to that at the top of the webpage] and did not see any relevant guidance.
- I do not use MSAccounts and I regard them with such distrust that I'd always choose to make a new user account on the computer instead of trying to change it.
- If Skype lets you sign in when you use it [rather than insisting on your already being signed in to an MSAccount-linked user account] then perhaps it would be much simpler just to convert your current computer's user account to a local one.
Switch to Local Account - TenForumsTutorials

Denis

bartjunited said:

I assume therefore that breaks the sync with the other laptop if it exists

Bart,

Yes. Only MSAccount-linked user accounts sync.

But that other computer will still use your email address unless you convert that as well.

Denis