No "Remove" button for Microsoft account in Windows 10 settings? SOLVED

Anonymous
2020-01-23T20:24:27+00:00

Hi all,

I wanted to share this in case anyone else was having the same frustrating problem. I had a personal Microsoft account that I had mistakenly signed into on a work PC. To remove it, I followed the steps to go to Settings >> Email & Accounts, then select the account and click "Remove". Well, I got there, and there was no "Remove" button! Only a "Manage" button appeared.

The "Your info" page probably also looks like this

If you are having this problem, look for a text link on the "Your info" page that says something like "Stop signing in to all Microsoft apps automatically". Click on that text.

"Your info" should now say "Local Account" instead of your email

Go back to the "Email & accounts" page and you should now be able to remove the account

Hope this helps someone.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-25T21:48:22+00:00

    I was so troubled, too when I added a work Microsoft account to my computer. It made me including all other users of the computer to change their 4 digit PIN to 6 digit PIN. Then the passwords had to be changed before accessing their personal user accounts. I therefore decided to remove the work account from this computer to a different personal laptop. There was no remove/ delete account button in the settings. I followed this discussion but then realized that my computer had different removal buttons. I believe this shall help somebody.

    I clicked on the ACCESS WORK & SCHOOL, MICROSOFT ACCOUNT (to be removed), and DISCONNECT. After a few minutes the work Microsoft account appeared again. I clicked DISCONNECT for 2nd time and the account vanished.

    THEN

    THEN CLICKED A 2ND TIME TO DISCONNECT.

    The account vanished.

    I restarted the computer.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-09T19:17:35+00:00

    in my Win10Pro computer (signed in with local admin account) the ms account appears but it does NOT have the [remove] button. it has the [manage] button that will launch Edge to sign-in to ms's portal. how do i un-link that ms account from my computer? any suggestions?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-09T22:20:13+00:00

    Thank you! This has been aggravating me for over a year.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-10T02:49:10+00:00

    This was the trick for me.  The "Remove" button didn't show up on my Son's computer until I removed his Microsoft account from our Family Group.  Then I could remove the association between his local account and his Microsoft account.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-21T14:14:03+00:00

    Thanks, it works!

    Was just trying to add an Outlook.com account to Outlook when it added that login to Windows; couldn't figure out why there's no "Remove" button to get rid of it. Now, I'm only going to add accounts to Outlook using IMAP so I can avoid this stupidity.

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