Mystery black box....

I understand it better, thank you all for taking the time to help.

I thought it might be a virus trap or something.

Grateful, Phyllis

I am really confused. I am 75 years old. Is this for the screen where you put in a password to get to the account screen (home page) in general?

Is this the "Main Screen" that comes first?

Does it have to be the same as Microsoft.com log in?

I did try hitting enter, but when do you hit enter? Sorry, old brain not getting this at all.

I am afraid I will be shut off without help.

Thanks for any advice.

Phyllis

Thank you, Phyllis

Turning off the password expiration feature, or creating a new "admin" type account? Rob???

What i am addressing is there is of course a password required to log into my laptop on the Lock Screen.

I seem to remember back some time in having to have it the same password for the lock screen as my password at the Microsoft site.

So, when a password is required by Windows 10 to change again, are they talking about the password on the "Lock Screen", and do I have to go to the Microsoft site and change it to that same new password?

I hope I have expressed myself more clearly. They used to be required to be the same, I think (this was a few years ago).

Thank you, Phyllis

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If you have an email address with microsoft mail system, then it would be the same password, but you can create a local account and give it any password you want.

I guess I have an email on the Mircrosoft email system, if I understand what you are saying. I am not very savvy on the technical expressions.

I have Windows 10, so I am assuming my email system is through the Microsoft system? I am not sure what you mean by "an email address with microsoft mail system".

Please excuse my naive lack of terminology here, If the above is correct the way I am seeing it, then I just need to change my password at Microsoft and that would be the password I log in with?

I feel really stupid here, but trying my best....very old brain in my head...I am 75.

Thanks for the help.

You can try that, see if it works for you. I did Beta testing of windows 10 and then quit using it, but I do remember I had a local account and when I signed up for an email account with microsoft, I think it was through hotmail at the time, suddenly it became the signin for windows 10, even though I had not authorized it. From what I've heard in forums it does the same thing. Personally I use Linux Mint as my preferred OS. Maybe Rob can give you more info on those accounts, but I personally was greatly turned off by what Microsoft and Windows 10 did at that time.