Nomad of Norad
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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 created when we got the machine and is in his name, and a second one I'd created to fix a weird issue that happened at one point to his account. I had left that 2nd account in place, but the original account had more stuff stored on it. Anyway, when it updated the system to Win10, it latched onto whichever account appeared alphabetically first.... which was that SECOND account that I'd made to fix the other account.
I vaguely remember there being a warning in some article somewhere that it would do something like that, and that one should turn off any extra accounts so that the update will latch onto the one you WANT it to... but I didn't anticipate that Dad would receive a "Let me update you to Win10" dialog in the near term and say to himself, "Sure, why not? >>click!!<<"
** FACEDESKS **
So, anyway, IS there an easy way to get that account back re-enabled so I can select it from power up? I can get to the account settings pane, and I've gone to the Family & Friends selection (or whatever the heck that one was called) and the account is there, but there doesn't seem to be any kind of checkbox that looks like its related to this, there's only enable and disable, and it looks like the other account is enabled.
Note that I have NOT turned on any kind of Microsoft web account thing on that machine yet, I had clicked on the do-this-later button, so if switching between local accounts is dependent on doing that FIRST, it also brings up the issue of not wanting that Microsoft account tied to the 2nd account I'D made. oO
So, where do I go from here? Oo
I vaguely remember there being a warning in some article somewhere that it would do something like that, and that one should turn off any extra accounts so that the update will latch onto the one you WANT it to... but I didn't anticipate that Dad would receive a "Let me update you to Win10" dialog in the near term and say to himself, "Sure, why not? >>click!!<<"
** FACEDESKS **
So, anyway, IS there an easy way to get that account back re-enabled so I can select it from power up? I can get to the account settings pane, and I've gone to the Family & Friends selection (or whatever the heck that one was called) and the account is there, but there doesn't seem to be any kind of checkbox that looks like its related to this, there's only enable and disable, and it looks like the other account is enabled.
Note that I have NOT turned on any kind of Microsoft web account thing on that machine yet, I had clicked on the do-this-later button, so if switching between local accounts is dependent on doing that FIRST, it also brings up the issue of not wanting that Microsoft account tied to the 2nd account I'D made. oO
So, where do I go from here? Oo