Solved Upgraded to Win 8 Pro can't login live account

gyrene2083

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Hello all,

The grump 'ole Marine, took the plunge and upgraded his Win 7 pc to Windows 8 Pro. Figured since they are retiring my stinking Technet, I might as well see what this Win 8 is about. Well I upgraded fine, however I have a few minor issues and questions I hope the community can help me with.

1. I can't seem to login with my Live account (Hotmail) can't do it via Office 2013, nor can I do it in the Store.
{Read that the solution was to create an new account, and use my hotmail address as the new user}:sarc:

2. I created the new hotmail account, but lost all of my original user profile settings.
{Read that all I needed to do was copy the profile files over from userA to userB folder}:sarc:

3. Well it copied the files over but broke Metro. I can't even Win+Q anymore. The standard windows Tiles are blank :eek: and I'm looking like Gunny Hartman, yelling at Gomer Pile.....:mad:

{My kids think it's funny watching a 43 year old Marine yell obscenities to a laptop, like it's a Recruit}

*One bright note, I was able to learn how to hard link the user directory and program files (x86) files to my d drive.
:geek:

If anyone has the patience to help out this Old Marine, and save his laptop from being launched off the balcony, I would greatly and truly appreciate it.

-Semper Fi
gyrene2083
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy i7
    CPU
    i7
    Memory
    16GB
    Antivirus
    Norton Internet Security
I somehow figured it out. Not quite sure what I did though.

I deleted the profile, with all the files, then rebooted.
Personalized my account, and selected sign in with microsoft account. I had done this before and it wouldn't work, but some how this time it worked, and I rebooted several times and it stuck.

So, this grumpy Marine is a little less grumpy now.

-Semper Fi
gyrene2083
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy i7
    CPU
    i7
    Memory
    16GB
    Antivirus
    Norton Internet Security
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