Are any of you getting the "We need to fix your Microsoft account"message?

After the Win 10 2004 update installation, most everything went pretty
well, but I did start getting this error message:

"Microsoft account problem.

We need to fix your Microsoft account before you can use shared experiences"

Did anyone else get this message recently? If you did I did find the
solution he

What means "We need to fix your Microsoft account"?? - Microsoft Community
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...24ecd1a?auth=1

It seems like Windows is forcing you to link your email account to your
Windows login. I have specifically avoided doing this, but when you try
to fix the problem the standard way, it tries to link your email account
to your Windows userid. If you don't want to do that, then try the
solution in the message above.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
After the Win 10 2004 update installation, most everything went pretty
well, but I did start getting this error message:

"Microsoft account problem.

We need to fix your Microsoft account before you can use shared
experiences"

Did anyone else get this message recently? If you did I did find the
solution he

What means "We need to fix your Microsoft account"?? - Microsoft Community
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...24ecd1a?auth=1


It seems like Windows is forcing you to link your email account to your
Windows login. I have specifically avoided doing this, but when you try
to fix the problem the standard way, it tries to link your email account
to your Windows userid. If you don't want to do that, then try the
solution in the message above.

Yousuf Khan

I have two Insider installs, one has an "account problem",
the other does not. I haven't fixed it, and it's been doing
that for months.

I fell for its charms the first time, logged in with my MSA
(which is part of using the Insider), and while the error went
away, it's come back. I'm pretty happy to let stuff like this,
flap in the breeze.

Paul

On 6/22/2020 8:02 AM, KenW wrote:
Was this on Home or Pro ?
I run Pro and did not get it.

It was on Pro. And actually one of the solutions to fix this involves
using the Group Policy Editor, which is only available on Pro, I believe.

Yousuf Khan

On 22 Jun 2020, Yousuf Khan wrote
(in ):

After the Win 10 2004 update installation, most everything went pretty
well, but I did start getting this error message:

"Microsoft account problem.

We need to fix your Microsoft account before you can use shared experiences"

Did anyone else get this message recently? If you did I did find the
solution he

What means "We need to fix your Microsoft account"?? - Microsoft Community
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...urity/what-mea
ns-we-need-to-fix-your-microsoft-account/2a950f4d-25da-4e4d-84e5-fd27a24ecd1a?
auth=1

It seems like Windows is forcing you to link your email account to your
Windows login. I have specifically avoided doing this, but when you try
to fix the problem the standard way, it tries to link your email account
to your Windows userid. If you don't want to do that, then try the
solution in the message above.

Yousuf Khan

It’s not new with 2004. I’ve been getting variants on the ‘fix
Microsoft account’ for at least 18 months, probably over 2 years. I’ve
been ignoring the messages. Messages have shown on Pro and Education
installs, I don’t have any Home installs and can’t comment there. I
always use a ‘local’ account instead of a Microsoft account. This means
no Insider for me, which is a Good Thing(â„¢). Also no, or reduced, or
something, Microsoft Store, which as I don’t use the Microsoft Store is
something I don’t care about. Note that Microsoft is making it harder and
harder to use ‘local’ accounts instead of Microsoft accounts. I suspect
that one day soon they’ll just kill local accounts. That day is the day
that I freeze my systems, keep using local accounts, and drive on, possibly
converting to Ubuntu if Microsoft tries to force the issue by not letting
security updates through without a Microsoft Account.

On 22 Jun 2020, Yousuf Khan wrote
(in ):

On 6/22/2020 8:02 AM, KenW wrote:
Was this on Home or Pro ?
I run Pro and did not get it.

It was on Pro. And actually one of the solutions to fix this involves
using the Group Policy Editor, which is only available on Pro, I believe.

Yousuf Khan

Group Policy is available on Education, too.

On 6/22/2020 8:46 AM, Wolffan wrote:
On 22 Jun 2020, Yousuf Khan wrote
(in ):

On 6/22/2020 8:02 AM, KenW wrote:
Was this on Home or Pro ?
I run Pro and did not get it.

It was on Pro. And actually one of the solutions to fix this involves
using the Group Policy Editor, which is only available on Pro, I believe.

Yousuf Khan

Group Policy is available on Education, too.

I think Education is a cheap version of Pro. Probably cheaper than Home,
despite being much more functional.

Yousuf Khan

On 6/22/2020 8:45 AM, Wolffan wrote:
It’s not new with 2004. I’ve been getting variants on the ‘fix
Microsoft account’ for at least 18 months, probably over 2 years. I’ve
been ignoring the messages. Messages have shown on Pro and Education
installs, I don’t have any Home installs and can’t comment there. I
always use a ‘local’ account instead of a Microsoft account. This means
no Insider for me, which is a Good Thing(â„¢). Also no, or reduced, or
something, Microsoft Store, which as I don’t use the Microsoft Store is
something I don’t care about. Note that Microsoft is making it harder and
harder to use ‘local’ accounts instead of Microsoft accounts. I suspect
that one day soon they’ll just kill local accounts. That day is the day
that I freeze my systems, keep using local accounts, and drive on, possibly
converting to Ubuntu if Microsoft tries to force the issue by not letting
security updates through without a Microsoft Account.

I get the feeling that this error is actually on purpose, they randomly
send the error out to various users who they notice haven't linked their
online and offline accounts together, so they have to go through the
"solution" of having to link their accounts together. Once they link the
two accounts, then they can begin to spy on you (even more so than usual).

Having an online account as your local machine login is extremely
short-sighted (nothing new for Microsoft), as you don't want to have to
rely on a flaky network just to login to your own machine. Everything is
fine until your network starts to act up. The account may fall back to
its original local-only characteristics, but what if the passwords
between the online and offline accounts aren't the same, and you've
forgotten your old offline passwords, because you're used to the network
login?

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:


Having an online account as your local machine login is extremely
short-sighted (nothing new for Microsoft), as you don't want to have to
rely on a flaky network just to login to your own machine. Everything is
fine until your network starts to act up. The account may fall back to
its original local-only characteristics, but what if the passwords
between the online and offline accounts aren't the same, and you've
forgotten your old offline passwords, because you're used to the network
login?

Yousuf Khan

I think I was using netplwiz and automatically entering
the password, to get around having to enter the MSA.
That at least solves bootup. I think Sleep still
prompts for a password, and I didn't find an easy way
to get around typing in the extra-long MSA stuff.

And 2004, I must be missing something, because Netplwiz doesn't
have the tick box on mine.

They also removed the two easy hacks, to give you Admin at
bootup. That was fixed in 1909 I think.

Security is gradually being tightened, for some reason.

Paul

On 23/06/2020 03:57, Yousuf Khan wrote:

I get the feeling that this error is actually on purpose, they
randomly send the error out to various users who they notice haven't
linked their online and offline accounts together, so they have to go
through the "solution" of having to link their accounts together. Once
they link the two accounts, then they can begin to spy on you (even
more so than usual).


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On 6/22/2020 11:12 PM, Paul wrote:
I think I was using netplwiz and automatically entering
the password, to get around having to enter the MSA.
That at least solves bootup. I think Sleep still
prompts for a password, and I didn't find an easy way
to get around typing in the extra-long MSA stuff.

And 2004, I must be missing something, because Netplwiz doesn't
have the tick box on mine.

They also removed the two easy hacks, to give you Admin at
bootup. That was fixed in 1909 I think.

Security is gradually being tightened, for some reason.

Â*Â* Paul

GPEdit seems to be where it's done nowadays.

Yousuf Khan