I bought a new laptop for myself and my mom wants to occasionally use it too, so we need two accounts for my stuff and her stuff.
When I first set up the PC, I set up a local account (administrator privileges) under just my first name, just like things used to be in Windows 7 and prior.
Then I wanted to set up an account for my mom, under her first name. The thing is, Windows 10 asks for a Microsoft account, i.e. an e-mail address, so basically I made a mistake and gave her e-mail address and set it up (also admin). I then realized only her e-mail address is displayed instead of her name, which is annoying. At this point I'd like to mention I had made a restore point.
So when I logged into her account for the first time, it changed to her full name (as registered in her microsoft account), which makes it look better, but I was bugged that I couldnt edit out her last name. However, this is not the main issue.
The main issue is, after I logged in to her account, and the set up screens showed up ("Hi", "Getting things ready" etc.) I thought all was fine and logged out again. Then I logged back into my own account.
And guess what? All the microsoft apps (Windows Store apps, I guess) no longer work in mine:
For example, the Calculator doesn't work, the Mail app doesnt work, the Alarms & Clock doesnt work, the maps app doesnt work, the windows store doesnt open, and when I double click a picture, I get "the remote procedure call failed" error, so the picture viewer doesnt work either.
What the hell is going on? I restarted but my apps still did not work (interestingly, they did on her account).
I did a system restore to the point BEFORE I had logged into her account the first time, and lo and behold all my apps were functional again.
Seriously what the heck?
Right now this means I can scrap the idea of having an additional account on the laptop, as when someone logs in, it messes up my account's apps.
Please help, I don't want to do a clean reinstall of Windows as I spent many days installing so many programs on my account and all of them otherwise work fine.
When I first set up the PC, I set up a local account (administrator privileges) under just my first name, just like things used to be in Windows 7 and prior.
Then I wanted to set up an account for my mom, under her first name. The thing is, Windows 10 asks for a Microsoft account, i.e. an e-mail address, so basically I made a mistake and gave her e-mail address and set it up (also admin). I then realized only her e-mail address is displayed instead of her name, which is annoying. At this point I'd like to mention I had made a restore point.
So when I logged into her account for the first time, it changed to her full name (as registered in her microsoft account), which makes it look better, but I was bugged that I couldnt edit out her last name. However, this is not the main issue.
The main issue is, after I logged in to her account, and the set up screens showed up ("Hi", "Getting things ready" etc.) I thought all was fine and logged out again. Then I logged back into my own account.
And guess what? All the microsoft apps (Windows Store apps, I guess) no longer work in mine:
For example, the Calculator doesn't work, the Mail app doesnt work, the Alarms & Clock doesnt work, the maps app doesnt work, the windows store doesnt open, and when I double click a picture, I get "the remote procedure call failed" error, so the picture viewer doesnt work either.
What the hell is going on? I restarted but my apps still did not work (interestingly, they did on her account).
I did a system restore to the point BEFORE I had logged into her account the first time, and lo and behold all my apps were functional again.
Seriously what the heck?
Right now this means I can scrap the idea of having an additional account on the laptop, as when someone logs in, it messes up my account's apps.
Please help, I don't want to do a clean reinstall of Windows as I spent many days installing so many programs on my account and all of them otherwise work fine.