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Family settings in Windows 10 can affect user account management, especially after an upgrade from Windows 7. In one case, a user's elderly father's machine updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10, causing the system to automatically select the alphabetically first user account, which was a secondary account created for troubleshooting. This left the original account with more data inaccessible. The thread discusses how to re-enable the other account, highlighting that family settings and account configurations may need adjustment after a major Windows update to ensure all user profiles are accessible and properly managed.
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Windows 10 How do I re-enable another account on Win10?
My elderly dad's machine got updated from Win7 to Win10 without me anticipating it, and it brought a raft of issues that I'm having to deal with, but I'm just going to focus on one of them for this thread: I had TWO user accounts set up on the machine under Win7, the one that was originally...- Nomad of Norad
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