I'm not sure if I know all the correct vocabulary for this so bear with me as I try to explain.
One of my user accounts has gone inactive and I'd like to move everything under that account to another account as quickly and painlessly as possible. Long story short, the initial Windows account I set up when I got this laptop was one issued by an ISP that I left a few months back. Eventually, that email address/Windows account went dead. I can no longer use it for email. I can still sign in to that user account on the laptop but I can't install any programs from the Windows store or sign in to my XBox games (Taptiles, Mahjong, and so forth). (I can PLAY the games and they correctly track my score and award me the little medals that you get each month for getting sufficient points but that's all.)
I assume that there's no way to revive or reactivate this account so that I can do installations of new programs again so I'd like to find some way to move/copy the various existing applications so that they open under the other user account I have set up on this laptop, preferably without losing the score histories on the games.
Basically, I've got a double-barrelled problem: I need to be able to install programs from the Windows Store again and I'd like to move my games over to a different user account without losing my scoring history.
Any suggestions how I can do that?
I'm running Windows 8.1.
One of my user accounts has gone inactive and I'd like to move everything under that account to another account as quickly and painlessly as possible. Long story short, the initial Windows account I set up when I got this laptop was one issued by an ISP that I left a few months back. Eventually, that email address/Windows account went dead. I can no longer use it for email. I can still sign in to that user account on the laptop but I can't install any programs from the Windows store or sign in to my XBox games (Taptiles, Mahjong, and so forth). (I can PLAY the games and they correctly track my score and award me the little medals that you get each month for getting sufficient points but that's all.)
I assume that there's no way to revive or reactivate this account so that I can do installations of new programs again so I'd like to find some way to move/copy the various existing applications so that they open under the other user account I have set up on this laptop, preferably without losing the score histories on the games.
Basically, I've got a double-barrelled problem: I need to be able to install programs from the Windows Store again and I'd like to move my games over to a different user account without losing my scoring history.
Any suggestions how I can do that?
I'm running Windows 8.1.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS K55N
- CPU
- AMD A8-4500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.90 GHz
- Motherboard
- not sure
- Memory
- 8.00 GB installed, 7.46 GB usuable
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radeon
- Sound Card
- not sure
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Built-in laptop screen
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x768
- Hard Drives
- one 750 GB
- PSU
- Not sure
- Case
- Not sure
- Cooling
- Not sure
- Keyboard
- Built in to laptop
- Mouse
- None; I use the touchpad
- Internet Speed
- 6 Mbps down, 0.25 Mbps up
- Browser
- current versions of Firefox, Chrome and IE
- Antivirus
- Avast Free
- Other Info
- I *think* many of the questions to which I've answered "not sure" are irrelevant because it is a laptop but if you need to know specifically what model of cooling fans or keyboard or whatever where built in to the laptop, I can try to find that out if you tell me where to look. I don't see this information in the Windows/System display but maybe it is elsewhere. I'm not sure what a "PSU" is: Powe