After having figured out a way to revert to direct login without using my Microsoft account, I configured my other computers the same. I don’t remember all the details, but because of having no Internet, I could not log into my computer. During this transition I lost Internet connection. It’s likely the issue is there.Īfter installing Windows 10 on one of my computers I succumbed to the Microsoft account login option.

The bottom line: if you get a warning about your Microsoft account, be sure to check out any apps that use the same account your PC does. Someday, perhaps one or both of those expectations will be met, but right now they’re not.

If there was a problem with an app’s ability to use the account, the error would at least tell me which app or apps were involved.

My login account - a Microsoft account - would automatically be used for Microsoft-related services on the PC.

Once I took those two steps (on each of my Windows 10 machines), I stopped getting nagged. I needed to open account properties and re-authenticate my Microsoft account here as well. It’s configured to connect with my Hotmail account, which is my Microsoft account.

Mail – I don’t use the Mail app in Windows 10, but I do have it configured so I can answer questions and test things out.

I needed to open OneDrive properties and re-authenticate my Microsoft account there.

OneDrive – I rely heavily on OneDrive, and sure enough, it had stopped syncing.

The “trick”, in my case, was to remember that there were two other applications I had used - perhaps only briefly - that also were associated with my Microsoft account. Then I started getting this “there’s a problem with your Microsoft account” message, just as you have, even though as far as I could tell, there was no problem at all. It went relatively smoothly, but I had to re-log-in to all my PCs if I wanted the Microsoft account connection to remain active for things like Windows Updates. Not long ago, I changed my Microsoft account password. Log in and then log in again somewhere else Given Microsoft’s near insistence that we use Microsoft accounts to log in to our Windows 10 PCs, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch that they would use the same account for everything else account-related on your PC.Īpparently, successfully logging in to your PC with your Microsoft account isn’t enough to log in to other applications that also use your Microsoft account. You probably have to log in to a couple of additional places: OneDrive, Mail, and perhaps other apps as well. The short answer is that simply logging in to your PC isn’t enough after a password change. This was a head-scratcher for me when I first encountered it some time ago.

Microsoft account security alert