that's good to know. I would assume then, if you are a Windows Insider then you wouldn't receive Insider builds if you change your Microsoft Account? Daniel
On 3/23/17, James Flusche <pinhead2...@outlook.com> wrote: > Good afternoon Jaws Users list. > If you change your Microsoft account, you will lose your office 365 > subscription. You will have to buy it again for your new account. For > example: I decided to make my computer and accounts more organized. I was > using two Microsoft accounts on my computer. Instead, I decided to make a > new Microsoft account, I made it an administrator account. Warning: after > making this new Microsoft account, I deleted the other accounts. I chose to > keep a copy of the old user folders. What happened after I restarted my > computer was the following. No office 365, I went to the Microsoft store and > purchased a yearly subscription to Office 365 this time instead of the month > to month subscription for office 365. Now this is important, when my > computer restarted, I had a brand-new desktop, which included an icon for my > old user folders. So, I had to totally customize all my Windows 10 settings > again, and set up my computer just like a new install of windows 10. With > one exception, I could copy and paste all my old user folders into the new > user folders. Also, I had nothing in my new OneDrive folders. So, I set up > OneDrive, I copied and pasted my stuff from the old OneDrive folder into the > new one. I had to sink my chosen folders to OneDrive, I had to share a > OneDrive link again with my two groups. I had to download many apps I wanted > to use. I had to set some programs back up again. But for the most part, > that was not too hard to do. The one challenging item for me was to set up > Outlook 2016 again from scratch. No email accounts, no contacts either. The > outlook.com account was easy to do, but the Yahoo Imap account was a pain in > the butt to set up. I kept getting certificate errors. Turns out one of the > server incoming numbers was wrong, and I had a period at the end of one of > the server details. So to make a long story short, I spent several days > setting up my computer after creating a new Microsoft account, and I had to > buy the office 365 subscription again. But all and all, Jaws is working much > better now. I have everything reset to the way I had things customized on my > W-10 computer before I made the change of my Microsoft account. So in my > opinion, I am happy that I made this change to my Microsoft account. > Everything is working better for me including Jaws. I just wanted you all to > be aware of changing your Microsoft account if you are using an office 365 > subscription. I also called Microsoft and cancelled my old Office 365 > subscription. Just wanted to let you all know what will happen if you switch > Microsoft accounts. Smiles. > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
