Why is file explorer asking for a sign in?

Anonymous
2022-08-02T10:32:39+00:00

File explorer keeps asking for a sign in but then tells me I can't log in with a personal log in and requires a business or education log in....

Going round in circles...

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-29T05:54:32+00:00

    I am in the same boat. At some point, when opening a new program or app, I cannot continue using my regular Microsoft Account Admistrator Profile (am I overloading it?). I am instructed to sign in with a work or school account profile. Which I don't have. Next I try old profiles which never work (desperation). I am then instructed to open new account for purposes of a new profile. This occasionally works. Fast forwart a few days. The cycle starts over. My Microsoft Account sign in cannot be used and again comes the instructions to sign in with a work or school account profile which I still don't have. Profiles created from this last exercise in futility either have litteraly disappeared or are rejected because they are registered to "someone else" I will again be instructed to create a new.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-23T11:26:54+00:00

    This solution removes other histories which is not right.

    Problem solved !

    From Desktop right click Personalize option, go to accounts on left menu. In that accounts page page scroll down and click 'Work or School'. Then remove the unused work or school account from it. The sign in option of Explorer will also not get popped again even if you click office.com check box on privacy clicking three dots in the windows explorer.

    Nilakantheswar Patnaik

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-23T11:24:24+00:00

    See my reply at end date solved 23 Mar 2023

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-23T11:21:51+00:00

    See my reply at end date solved 23 Mar 2023

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