Why Does Outlook automatically log me in without my email address and password?

Anonymous
2013-04-15T12:47:04+00:00

Hi there,

Why does Outlook automatically log me into my Email without me having to type my email address or password?  When I turn my computer on, I go to my Desktop and click on the Outlook icon to open up my email.  It is logging me into that email without me even having to enter my password information, and quite frankly, I find this very unsettling. This means that anyone who uses my computer once it is turned on, can access my email without my permission. How can I correct this so Outlook asks me to enter my email address and password each time I want to log into my email?  Thanks.

Annette Sullivan

Outlook | Web | Outlook.com | Account management, security, and privacy

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-08T03:00:44+00:00

    Lets see if I got this right.

    You are saying that MS designed it this way?

    So actually you have to try to work around this?

    I just don't see how this is secure at all.

    If I can access it this way, so can anyone else.

    I guess I don't get it.

    I guess I don't want a "single experience".

    So I guess I am SOL here along with the other people here that don't either.

    I fail to see how this enhances a users security.

    Having my name plastered across all these MS apps is not to me anyway,  my idea of security.

    Good thing I don't use my real name on here.

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  2. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
    2014-01-08T03:05:56+00:00

    I'm just giving my opinion.

    How is it insecure if every person has his or her own account with a strong password?

    Perhaps you don't want a single experience, but that's what you have.

    You don't have to use your real name for your PC/Microsoft account.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-08T04:43:47+00:00

    I do have a strong pass word.

    And yes I don't like the "single experience".

    Actually I don't like 8 at all but it came on my new computer.

    I hope 9 will be better than 8 but I would guess not.

    And I don't use my real name.

    Also I do understand that you are just giving your opinion.

    And I am just giving my opinion also.

    Thanks, but I still don't like the new set up that 8 has.

    Actually the more I use it the less I like it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-08T16:28:42+00:00

    NOTE THIS ENTRY: JohnAlbert33's reply on 1/7 chrystalizes what started this thread in the first place. The thread has ventured way off-subject. The question was...."Is there anyway to change the credentials  so it won't automatically log in?"

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-08T22:08:26+00:00

    Make it like windows 7,click on outlook.com,it asks you for your address and password,,not to go directly to your inbox,,does everyone that has windows 8 have this trouble?There has to be a way to change it for the ones that don't want it this way,I thought it was all about privacy,How can you change this?

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