I have this annoying login problem on Win10. I don't know how or why I get this. When I upgrade from Win8.1, the first time I login was my online microsoft account. No problem... key in password and it restored back everything nicely.

Then lately, when I switch on pc, another login would appear, first pic. But this is no longer my online account and I don't have the password.

I must click somewhere else, then I get to the second screen, second pic. Here I see 2 login options on bottom left corner. The top option is my online login and I have the password. The bottom one which I don't know what it is, how it appear, is now my default login. The only thing I did was going in to netplwiz and disable requirement to login with password.

I checked settings, no extra acc created, no local acc created... where else to check?

Thank you in advance.


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boy, that almost locked me out of my pc. after i did the above, still hv 2 account, but my password don't work anymore. used the reset option appearing on the screen also no use. I set my password from pass1 to pass2, using phone but still cannot access. Then i insert setup disc and restore to earlier restore point, it says restore fail, but now my old password, pass1, works. However, immediately after login, OneDrive asked me login credentials. I put in my email, pass1 failed, and now pass2 works.

Win10 sucks.

This post has been edited by n8210: Oct 12 2015, 11:59 PM

What a night... after numerous attempts, I have finally decided to reset everything back to normal, deleting all apps and user files, start again. Then back to single online working account. If I reset and keep everything, the "dual" login options continues to exist.

This morning, I continued to work on my "fresh" Win10 and finally I managed to recreate the problem. How? Because I went and change the computer name and workgroup. Its the computer name. During installation time, it gave me a name I don't like, something like "DESKTOP-GH386TH".. So I went ahead and change it to something I can recognize and after the reboot, the problem came back...

So how do I solve this?
First: remove the "second/other" login
Secondly: change my computer name without recreating this issue

Thanks a lot man..

Not sure yet.. luckily I had a picture of what was the default computer the setup gave me, and I key in the same stupid name, and the second/other login disappear. Using netplwiz, I can automatically login to windows without needing to type my password.

But like google, now MS does not allow recycling of used password. So shit.. now hv to remember a new password for my MS account.

So on to searching for clues on how to change my pc name without getting into the same trouble again.

Can I have a local account login but still have auto backup and sync for my One Drive account?

this is getting frustrating.. i tried creating a local account to sign in, but failed. this is what happened:

- created local account LOC1, password Pass1
- reboot, cannot auto login to local account, reason: my username is LOC1, but Win10 help me login as another username, LOC2
- i need to delete the on screen LOC2, type in the correct LOC1, input password, then i can enter/login
- meanwhile, my online account login also appear at the bottom left corner.. so once more, 2 login options at the bottom left, but the default login keeps appearing with the wrong username, LOC2.. why?

And I cannot delete this local account. Even if I go into setting and select online account to login, from now on this second login option keeps appearing as the default, and with the wrong username, LOC2.. I cannot auto login.

Must either:
- manual go change the local account username back to LOC1, type password, OR
- select online account, and key in password

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