Windows 10: Unable to change email address associated with account

Hi there,I've been having some issues changing the email address associated with my Microsoft account. For a while now I have had to use ****.******@gmail.com containing a dot rather than my standard email address without a dot. When I try to change the email address associated with the account removing the dot it states "This email address is already taken. Please try another one". However, when I try to sign in to the account with the dot which I never recall creating I get the message "You’ve tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect account or password.". When I attempt recov

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Unable to change email address associated with Microsoft Account

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

********* The email address which is currently associated with my Microsoft Account Profile is indeed an @outlook.com email address *********

However, the address that I would like to change it to is a 3rd party address. AOL.

I am going to attempt to follow your instructions. However, to be honest I'm not completely sure I understand what you are suggesting here. I actually DO have control of this email address. I am currently using it as my preferred main email account for my own personal use at the moment.

It sounds like you are suggesting that this AOL email account has gotten into the hands of some other entity, such as aliens from another planet. Of course I know that you are in fact NOT suggesting that this is the case. But then, in fact what exactly ARE you suggesting about the AOL email account?

My thought was that it was previously set up by myself as a completely separate Microsoft Account, and that I must have stopped using it for this purpose, and then over time I may have forgotten that I had set it up for this ulterior purpose.

Thank you again for any help.

 

Unauthorized Emails from my account?

It is more than likely that your email account was hacked, either by a virus sniffing your password, or just simply hacked.

Either way, change your password on your email account. Unfortunately the damage by already be done. They already have your contact list and your email address associated with that contact list. There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send emails to people that come from your address.

 

How to change email address associated with a local user account

I have two local user accounts on my Windows 10 workstation, let's call them 'A' and 'B'. Each of these user accounts have valid separate Microsoft online accounts, let's call them 'X' and 'Y' respectively, however these Microsoft accounts were deliberately
not used or associated with the local accounts during their creation.

User 'A' has the primary email account 'X' associated with it, as displayed in 'Your Info'. User 'B' was also (incorrectly and unintentionally) updated so it is now also associated with the primary email account 'X'. Therefore, now both local user accounts
are trying to connect to Microsoft account 'X' to sync, which is obviously not desired.

What I am wanting to do is to change the email address associated with the local user account 'B' to use email address 'Y' instead of 'X', without having to delete and recreate the local user account.
I can't add an alias or any other convoluted solution to the Microsoft online accounts as both X & Y accounts are still valid are meant to be separate so making changes to the respective accounts online doesn't make any sense. I can add email account
'Y' to the list in "Accounts used by other apps" but cannot remove account 'X' from the list. I also can find no way to change the email address in the 'sync your settings' options.

For some strange reason there appears to be no logical way to do this. I have tried a few changes in the registry, however, they did not persist so I am guessing the changes are required elsewhere.
What am I missing, because I expected this to be a reasonably simple problem to resolve?

Thank you in advance for any assistance.