I have here a W8.1 machine and can't get into it because it's not recognizing the user's password as being valid. I clicked on the Forgot password button. It gave me a website to go to - https://account.live.com/password/reset.
So, using another computer, I went to the site. It emailed a numeric code to the user's email address to verify the user was the one with the account in question. Then I was able to create a new password.
Now, back onto the Windows 10 machine, I logged in using the newly created password. My question is - how did the W8.1 machine know about the newly created password? It hadn't been connected to the Internet when we created the new password.
So, using another computer, I went to the site. It emailed a numeric code to the user's email address to verify the user was the one with the account in question. Then I was able to create a new password.
Now, back onto the Windows 10 machine, I logged in using the newly created password. My question is - how did the W8.1 machine know about the newly created password? It hadn't been connected to the Internet when we created the new password.