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I was called over by a colleague. She needed help because her computer kept telling her that she did not have permission to run certain programs or access certain files.

She logged in to Windows in front of me. The first thing that I noticed that the username was her office email address. I asked her about it.

Me: Why is your username your email address?
Her: It was this way when I got it.
Me: That is impossible. I made every Windows installation here and I always use the same username which is [companyname] as it is our policy.
Her: I'm telling you, this is the way it was when I got it.
Me: Are completely sure?
Her: Well.... someone else must have renamed it.
Me: So someone fired up your laptop, used your password to log in and changed the username to your email?
Her: I don't understand it either. Is it possible that it happened accidentally, on its own?
Me: ...

Then I explained to her that changing the username on Windows 10 may result in problems with file permissions.

I am not mad because she didn't know about this. I am mad because of her idiotic lies.

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  • 15
    Users being users. Congrats on staying calm ;)
  • 3
    Imagine a world without lie
    It would save a plenty of time
  • 7
    In her defense, Windows 10 is quite sneaky in its attempts of trying to link your windows logon with an online account. I almost accidentally did the same thing.
    I'm sure she changed it entirely unknowingly.
  • 5
    @siljamicke +1

    Windows asks if you want to login kr sync to your live account, it offered the first time you login to it.

    If you say yes to that, you will no longer have a local user (per se), you will login with your live account (your damn email)

    So, dude, maybe she was not lying. And maybe you should find out if you can shut down the service that offers that.
  • 7
    @siljamicke Funny thing is that it wasn't a windows live account. She literally changed her username to her email address without linking any accounts to it.
  • 1
    @FreezaPlanet419 that is a funny thing indeed!
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