Posted February 17, 20177 yr FPCH Staff 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.
February 18, 20177 yr FPCH Admin I've had that happen to me once and I just assumed that the account information was automatically synced. ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~~~Robert McCloskey~~
July 12, 20177 yr Author FPCH Staff Yes, but 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.
July 14, 20177 yr Tony I think they link passwords to the M$ account somehow not sure I could be wrong (just ask my wife).
December 22, 20177 yr The above method only works on computer that signs in with MS account. If you use MS, you must know the phone number and email address , MS is invalid if there is an unknown, I think this method is very limited
April 12, 20186 yr There are a lot of ways to reset password for Windows 10 , getting into your other account to access your computer is one of the best way of them , if the MS account can not help you ,
