I was then offered the option to return to my Local account which I did.

I wish I had captured that screen because I decided to test by clicking the link (can’t remember what it said). Please remove personal information before posting.Īfter reading your post I checked and sure enough I was logged on to my MS Account (I use Office 365). Moderator Note: Personal information removed from attachments. Very annoying and afraid to do anything so ignoring. I don’t want to connect to Microsoft Account.

The dropdown from the triangle says sorry can’t connect to Microsoft Account. It is not happening with Office outlook, but Word and the others have a warning triangle at the top and I am told to sign in, when I am already signed in and every this is working. It is happening with the Office apps as well. I used it to buy Office 2019 so I could recover it if anything happened. I think it is something Microsoft does to collect information, not help me. I don’t need or want Microsoft’s generous offer to coordinate everything for me. I was really angry when I was tricked into losing it. I had learned here how to open Windows 10 while I was off line so I could have a local account. Since I can now show a picture of the trap, I thought I would post this. Once Microsoft took over my Windows 10 local account the way back was removed. Several discussions pointed to a link to use a local account instead, but that link was gone. Spent hours trying to get my local account back. The sign in for my Microsoft Account popped up, I entered my password and suddenly my Local Account on Windows 10 was gone and it was changed to a Microsoft Account on my Windows 10. I got suckered on Sunday and clicked on it. When I clicked on the notification it opened “Shared experiences” and a link to Fix now. “Most likely it was a problem with the password” and I should fix it. This started after upgrade to Windows 10 20H2Ī pop up in the notification area had a warning that Microsoft had a problem with my account.

Changing my microsoft account