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Windows 10 changed login password by itself while asleep
I have been using the same Windows 10 password to log in upon start and to wake the computer for over a year. Today when I entered that same password to gain access after the computer went to sleep, it no longer worked. I tried every password I could think of, and finally gained access using my Microsoft OneDrive password, which I never use for anything (I don't even use OneDrive).
Looking online it says that the Microsoft password may have been used, but it should have been the one associated with my email address. It wasn't. Also, I did not set a Microsoft password - I was using a Local password only. Now I have no local password in my User Accounts - only the Microsoft password.
Why would Windows change the administrator login password without my doing anything to change it? And what can I do to get it back to the way it was before and make sure this never happens again?
Thanks so much,
Deb