Microsoft Accounts has taken over.

[Baitball Blogger]

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?

[braddy]

1. What happens if you sign out of the microsoft account?

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I went to microsoft.com and it prompted me to sign in.

I assume that means that we don't have an open door.

The other strange thing is that, after I posted my Question on this site, a pop-up window advised me that Skype signed off and "needs help to sign on."

This is so weird and invasive.

[2naSalit]

3. Maybe a

hack or a bot? I have issues with Google trying to get me to merge stuff I don't have. I would never connect one acct to another and don't have anything other than email with that service. I get the pop-ups regularly.

[braddy]

4. What if you just sign in, put another admin account on your computer and then sign out of the micro

soft account, after doing what you want to do and having made all of your microsoft account privacy and unsync. settings.

I have signed into my microsoft account and then signed out, and everything was normal.

[earthshine]

6. MS accounts are invasive and snoopy. They are watching everything.

If you go to their website, of course they will prompt you to sign in. Don't go there.

The only time I use my MS account is when I go to their site to download software.

I assume this is Win 10. I gave up on 10 because of issues of privacy and stability. On my computer, 10 runs like Molasses compared to Win 8.

At the moment, I do not have access to a Win 10 computer, so my advice will be general.

You must revert the current account on your computer to a "local account." So, change it from MS account to local on your computer. You configure this somewhere in the "settings" system of panels.

When you sign into your computer using the MS account, it attempts to connect you to their services like One Drive, the app center, and advertising spy bots.

If you use just a local account, it won't bother you as much.

If I wasn't so deeply entrenched in using the advanced functions of Word and Excel, I'd have joyfully abandoned MS years ago.

Good luck.

[GentryDixon]

5. If you ever get past Microsoft taking over your computer

here is a fix that worked for me on WIFI dropping.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Sounds like you nailed the original problem.

I'll give it a shot.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Applied the fix. Fingers crossed.

I do have another problem that may have started the entire avalanche of problems. I received a replacement power charger from Best Buy and my battery has been showing "plugged, but not charging." It doesn't go higher than 46%, I've tried some of the recommended fixes but it is still not working properly.

This may have something to do with the pushing of Microsoft Edge. That was one of the first nuisance pop-ups. It kept claiming that Mozilla was a power hog. I wonder if it's trying to prove a point?

[Egnever]

8. use the cortana box

next to the start menu and type in account, the top listing should be account management, clicking on that it will take you to the account settings. You should see a line there that says sign in with a local account instead, click on it and follow the prompts.

That will return you to a local account.

Using a microsoft account does have it's advantages and you can turn all the services you mentioned off but if you just want to revert to a local account without the hassle of trying to figure out how to turn off the things you don't want to use just change back to a local account.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Is it going to jump out at me and give me the option to turn it into a local account?

Right now I am only getting a standard vs administrator account.

[Egnever]

10. I think you are looking at user accounts through the control panel.

I know it is confusing but they have two different settings pages.

An alternate way to get to the one that lets you revert is to left click on the notification area down by the clock that looks like a chat bubble and chose all settings. Then click on accounts then you should see what i am talking about on the middleish part of the page that opens.

Just looked and it looks like from where I think you are looking at there is a line that says "make changes to my account in pc settings." clicking on that will bring you to the same place.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. I'm on local! Thank you!