Microsoft Is Acting Up

Lurch · Post by **Lurch** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:20 am

I got my Brightridge Fiber Optic Internet and it works nicely.
I'm running a 10 year old Dell 960 with core duo and Windows 10.

At startup I keep getting an MS notice that my accounts need attention. So I enter my password for a hotmail account that I really don't even want or need, then they offer to send me a code via phone, and I select it to call me, but they never call. Then I selected it to send me a code via email, and was unable to enter it. Sometimes it's hard to get out of that page after I get on it. I have 2 MS email accounts. One I think I need to have for Win10 but the other one I'd like to delete.

Any tips on this? I have 2 gmail accounts now and I'm fine with it.
I like gmail quite a bit more than I thought I would.

Thanks.

Lurch · Post by **Lurch** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:28 am

Never mind. I finally got it.
I entered the code they emailed me.

Feel free to delete this post if you want to.

Post by **Philip** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:36 pm

Good that you got it. You don't really need a Microsoft account to get into Windows, but that's another story.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:41 am

Keep track of your Microsoft account if you use it to log into Windows. If you ever need to do any data recovery (say you have a hard drive issue)...and/or if you get Bitlocker enabled (which it's doing by default now when you activate Windows on a MS account)..you'll need that recovery key.