Windows 10: Windows 11 will not let me create a new PIN after I changed my account email address

My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5 model A515-56 purchased in 2022. I updated to Windows 11 about a week ago. Today I noticed that the laptop was still showing my previous Microsoft account login email, which I had changed about a year ago. To confirm I had indeed changed it, I logged in to the Microsoft account with the new email address and it worked fine. So it did not make sense to me that Windows on my laptop was showing the old email address. So I clicked around and found where I thought I could change it to the new email address and did it. When I restarted my computer, I got a sign in reque

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Change email address without creating a New User Account

Hello Jordan,

Please follow the below mentioned steps to change your email address without creating a New User Account and check if it helps.

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  Navigate to Start/> Settings/>Accounts/>Your Account
  
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  On the right pane click Manage my Microsoft account, which will take you to online.
  
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  Select Your info from top menu, then click on Manage your sign-in email or phone number. Enter your email account password, when it prompts to do and click Sign-in
  
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  Again it will ask you to verify your Identity through Alternative email address or by
  Phone verification, which will send you a authentication code accordingly.
  
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  Once you enter the verification code push Submit, then click
  Set it up later when it ask for device setup.
  
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  Under Account aliases, click Add email and choose the email either through
  Create a new email address or Add a existing email address, then click
  Add alias
  
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  On completing this, click on Make primary next to the desired email address to make it primary alias.
  

You're done with change your email address. Reboot your PC for changes to take place. This procedure won't change or wipe your personal files or settings, instead it will change your email address. Going forward you will be communicated and alerts
will be sent to new email address. If you want to remove the old email address, then you can do the same by clicking on Remove without any issues.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Changing administrator email address

Hi Nooren,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

1) How do you access the Windows computer? Do you use Microsoft account or local account?

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

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  Open PC settings, and click/tap on Accounts on the left side.
  
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  Click/tap on your account on the right side, click/tap on the More account settings online link at the top of the right side.
  
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  If this PC or device is not a trusted device, then you will be prompted to enter and submit a security code sent to your phone or alternate email address.
  
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  In Internet Explorer, or your default web browser, click/tap on the Add or change aliases link under Account aliases.
  
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  Click/tap on Rename under your (primary alias).
  
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  Click/tap on Yes, rename my primary alias.
  
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  Sign in to your Microsoft account with your new email address and password. You can close the web browser when finished.
  
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  To Create a New Email Address to Use as your Primary Alias
  

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    Select (dot) Create a new email address as your primary alias.
    
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    Select if you want a new hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com address.
    
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    Type in a name you want, click/tap on Rename primary alias
    

9. Click/tap on OK.

Hope this helps. Please reply to us with the status of the issue.

Thanks.

 

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.