Removing an account from "Emails & Accounts" in Windows 10

Anonymous
2020-03-25T00:52:32+00:00

I cannot remove an account from Settings /  Email & Accounts / Manage. The delete button does not appear. When I click Manage, my browser opens and tells me to sign into an account in Microsoft Online. It was an account that I used for an old domain, that was connected to a MS Office product.

How do I get rid of these account and the annoying reminders that "there is a problem with my account"?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-26T22:06:32+00:00

    Yep, the issue is critical if it is not *your* account.  So anyone can wreck a Windows 10 installation by logging into Skype with another Microsift Id.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-26T19:48:11+00:00

    Check out this thread, also talking about the same issue, not solved yet. I remember for an article this year was highlighting Windows 10 is pushing to use Microsoft account and making the life harder if you don't want or want to disconnect it. :'(

    Remove Microsoft Account from my Local Account in Windows 10 - Microsoft Community

    This other is useful too, especially if you use the Microsoft Family Group feature then the organizer needs to remove the particular account from the family group, take the suggested action then put the account back:

    No "Remove" button for Microsoft account in Windows 10 - Microsoft Community

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-20T02:43:48+00:00

    Try this:

    1. Click Settings > Accounts > Access work or school
    2. Click the account you want to remove
    3. Click Disconnect

    More information can be found here: 

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking/cant-remove-a-work-or-school-account-from-windows/22403d43-91b6-4724-b509-ab3d28031e05

    I hope that helps!

    All very well, but i would suggest that the people finding "this" as a "solution" do not really have the problem.  What if it is not a work or a school account but simply someone else's Skype logon ?  We really need a fix for this that does not involve reinstallling the operating system, which is the current workaround.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-19T10:31:47+00:00

    Try this:

    1. Click Settings > Accounts > Access work or school
    2. Click the account you want to remove
    3. Click Disconnect

    More information can be found here: 

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking/cant-remove-a-work-or-school-account-from-windows/22403d43-91b6-4724-b509-ab3d28031e05

    I hope that helps!

    Fantastic tip, thank you.  Has been frustrating trying to find this option!

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