Windows 10 Login Options...

Some people are noticing that they have two accounts to log into Windows 10 with, one is your name and the other is your email address.

There are three different passwords for these accounts, one is a local password that was used to create the user account, then your email password and finally a 4 digit pin number.

There's an old saying, don't put all your eggs in one basket, and Microsoft has done just that.

They're trying to keep it easy for people to remember their passwords by creating one profile for all logins, not a smart idea.

sidenote: They also are wanting you to be using your One Drive which requires a network password to do so, local accounts disables One Drive.

Sending your password over an unencrypted public network or even a private network can expose your credentials to a prepared predator.

What about your retina and password scan? Well those are great for getting in locally to your computer, but that's not how things are done anymore.

The other feature is the calendar that people can use, but it prefers Outlook/MSN/Hotmail accounts better due to sync.

Sync is used to keep your appointments attached to your email when you schedule an appointment, but that's about it.

If you answer your email on a home computer and a mobile device you'll notice that the folders don't sync up well. They'll either refresh completely, won't sync at all or it will stop working midway through.

Due to the security risk involved with using your email address as your login is enough for us to not recommend doing it that way.

Still use your retina and fingerprint scanners.

How to Disable Windows 10 Email Login...
https://www.infopackets.com/news/9650/how-disable-windows-10-email-login

**UPDATE**

Weird occurrence that we have seen in one of our systems was a user added their email address to the email tile in Windows Start Menu that created a new user login.

When the system rebooted there were two users, the Original User and the New User with the Email address login.

Now you log in with your email address and your email password, but you can change that under settings.

That's all and good, but what has happened is the original user can't be logged into...

It's requesting a password, but a password was never given to the account. However, it needs a password and none of them work...

Also can't see the account under users to make any changes to it, and all it wants to do is create another user, which hasn't been done, but considering it...