My account takes over the wife's laptop.

Ashish,

      I am having the same issue as shorty since June and it still has not been resolved. My issue started after my wife setup her new PC using her own security credentials. She logged into https://login.live.com/ to download Office 365 using my online login information. Once the download was complete and she rebooted her PC, my login security credentials appear on the startup screen. For whatever asinine reason, all of her default PC security login credentials were arbitrarily changed after this occurrence. In addition, I also receive an error message on my PC after reboot stating "C:\User\*********\AppData\Roaming\b9824\ce7b0.85c03a". I have already turned off the synch function on both PCs and ran the sfc/scan(exe.). which did not recognize any system level issues.

Unfortunately, the article you provided as a possible remedy borderlines the absurd. Please provide a sound technical solution to this problem, it would be greatly appreciated.

"1. How are you login into your system? Are you using your own account or your wife's account?"

OK. I don't know how you can't understand the simple comment I made. How to dumb it down a little more for you...My wife was using her laptop computer.

To download and read a book available only as an e-book, she had to download and install an e-book reader into her laptop.

 She found a tutorial that indicated that she could do so using a "Kindle app" available from the Microsoft store.

 When it came to complete the download and install she had to suddenly provide an Microsoft account to finish the process.

 As she doesn't have an account (and NEVER will) she entered my account info.

 After she did this Windows assumed that I was taking over everything on her laptop and changed her name to mine, the login to my Microsoft account login, and requires her to, of course, use my password to be able to access her laptop for anything now.

 I DON'T need my login and security clearances on her laptop.

While she doesn't access the internet often or for much, I can't help but think that it shouldn't be done with MY security info being used unknowingly in the background if it comes up. (Because Windows does so many things on assumption now whether you want it, or know about it, or not.)

 This laptop is HERS. I don't want or need to clutter up her drives by duplicating all sorts of "account" files for another user when there won't ever be another user ! I have 4 other systems that I can call "mine".

"2. While login do you get one option or two options on login screen?"

Firstly, the machine was logged into the only account on her system, which was hers as it is HER computer. There is no other account, and as I stated, there will be no other account as this machine is only for the one user. It was a gift from her now deceased mother. Her account is the Admin account.

So WHY would Windows assume that she wanted to suddenly change all relevant login information to something completely different while running under the login it was changing ?

Why wasn't there some sort of simple or clear statement of this drastic change that was being made as a warning beforehand.

What makes it necessary to alter such important system files of an "Admin" account when installing a 3rd party "app" to read e-books ?

Why isn't there some form of easily accessible e-reader available or simply downloadable in the Windows OS without having to go through all this **** ?

How would creating an account for myself help in any way ? Are you stupid ? Setting up a daughter account for myself under the Admin account which is now MY LOGIN sounds like typical MS logic. Duplicate everything and check to see if it is wrong so you can fix the duplicate but leave the initial issue unchanged...what is wrong with you ?

The problem lies in that the original login for her has been overwritten by my MS account info without permission.

I feel like I shouldn't be trying to seek help from here.

Just back up all her data and have the machine wiped clean.

Maybe install Linux if possible...

So none of the trained MS people or anybody else can figure this out ?

If I had ANY experience with "Windows 8" I would probably know how to fix this myself as every Windows OS that I end up having to install becomes so problematic I have to learn how to control/repair/clean it almost immediately. The things I had to learn to keep 95, then 98, and now XP from getting out of hand and unstable...I don't have time to learn that one too. If anything I will wait for the next major OS and dig into it. As long as it isn't like trying to navigate a giant phone. I'm old ! I don't like or use cell phones unless I MUST. No apps. No browsing. No "data" even. Just texts and an occasional phone call.

If the computer OS looks like the phone I won't use it. (I remember being in college computer courses and the hardware being upgraded to be able to run the new DOS that was coming out. It was MS-DOS v1. I work better without all the modern "interfaces" and assumed multiple processes being done at a time.)

No simple way to edit the now modified Admin settings ?

Even if going into the proper directory in DOS and overwriting the core data with the original settings...I guess not.

Sorry to even have bothered to hope that it might be done.

Hello,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would appreciate, if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better:

1. How are you login into your system? Are you using your own account or your wife's account?
2. While login do you get one option or two options on login screen?

If you are getting only one option to login and that too for your own account. I would suggest you to create a new local account on your wife's computer and check the issue.

Follow the article given below to create a new user account and check 

Create a user account ****

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-8

Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.