Upon startup, I am prompted to login to an account that is non-existent on my PC

[Raven A]

When I start up my windows 10 PC, it used to automatically log me in on my Microsoft account, using the email address and password associated with my Microsoft account. However, now when I start up my pc, it prompts me with the message 'this password is incorrect', and it asks me to log into an account which uses my name, but is not the regular account I use. In the bottom left, there is an option to switch to my regular Microsoft account, which will then allow me to log in using my Microsoft credentials. The image below displays the prompt that asks me to log into this unknown account, with my regular Microsoft account in the bottom left.



How do I restore this to how it used to be, making me log in to my regular Microsoft account automatically, without any login prompt?

 

[Paul NZ]

Delete the other one in control panel / user accounts

And search type netplwiz

 

[corroded]

Mine does that... Is this an upgraded from Win 7/8 machine? Mine is a local user account. I click OK and select the correct account. I've never "corrected it"... I actually want a bit of confusion when it comes to my computers, makes it harder for most people if they sit down at it and try to go...

 

[johnbl]

it would most likely be a local user account stored on your local machine in the SAM database.
I would check your network connection and router and attempt to log into your Microsoft email account.
If you changed the password on Microsoft email account on any machine you would get this error.
if your machine can not contact the Microsoft server you would get this error.
generally you would not want to delete the local account. If it is your last local admin account you will not be able to delete it anyway.
if someone else logged into their account on your machine, it could be their account showing up.
you should confirm the name of the account and check how it is validated

 

[Raven A]

Thank you all for your answers. I found the problem: I once used netplwiz to automatically sign into my microsoft account. However somehow, wrong credentials sneaked into this auto-login command, prompting the message that my password was incorrect upon login.

So if you have a similar problem: Run the netplwiz command, disable auto login (check the box), enable it again (uncheck the box), and then enter your correct Microsoft credentials.