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Wed Feb 1, 2017, 10:37 AM Feb 2017

Microsoft Accounts has taken over. [View all]

Made the mistake of asking for help because my wireless keeps dropping off every five minutes and, because I followed the prompts, Microsoft Accounts took over my computer.

They changed my windows password to match the microsoft accounts password and now I keep getting a pop-up window urging me to fix my microsoft account so it can connect with all my devices. Problem is that I have no need for Skype or any reason to connect my I-Phone to my computer so this is becoming a nuisance.

So, I thought I could fix the problem by getting a different password for Windows and discovered they were joined at the hip.

Do you think the problem might be that they took the one user I have on this computer and turned him into the administrator in order to facilitate interactions between Microsoft Account and my computer?

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