![]() ![]() Your Windows 10 authentication (product key) is stored online, as are the decryption keys if your hard drive is encrypted. ![]() Your Microsoft account also connects your PC with companion apps on Apple iOS and Android smartphones and on other Windows devices. It allows you to save files from your PC to OneDrive (eg from WordPad), as well as to create files online. Windows 10 is a mobile operating system designed to work with a Microsoft account, which provides access to OneDrive cloud storage and a growing number of online applications, such as Calendar, People, Tasks, Office, Sway, etc. By extension, they also help to protect your friends and family, and the companies you deal with online. Passwords help to protect you and your work. It’s not sensible to operate computers without passwords, and there is a strong case for making them compulsory. However, the whole issue of Windows 10 accounts and passwords is so important that it’s worth a longer discussion. Asking Cortana for “change sign-in requirements” or typing req in the search box will get you to the right place. So the final answer I’ll offer is that if you really want to have a Yahoo Mail account, then make sure that you promptly modify your account settings so that you have a reminder question that you’re 100% sure you’ll remember.The quick and easy answer is to go to the Settings page of your account, look for the words “Require sign-in” and change the option to “Never”. In fact, I don’t like to help people recover their passwords when they don’t know the answers to their recovery questions, the situation you describe here, because I also have no way of differentiating between someone in a frustrating and unfortunate situation and someone who is trying to game the system, trying to con me (or Yahoo!) into releasing access to a personal account. ![]() If you were someone who was trying to break into an account, a “hacker” as you suggest, then you wouldn’t know the zipcode for the password reminder and you wouldn’t know the password. The issue is how does Yahoo! know that you have legitimate claim to this account? If you have an account, it’s your responsibility to set it up so that you can recover and restore any settings or similar.īut there’s a bigger issue here. Further, you can actually set any of about a dozen different reminder questions if you don’t have a zip code, as shown here: On the other hand, Yahoo! lets you chose from about 30 different countries, including China, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Thailand and Vietnam. On the one hand, it’s true that prompting for a zipcode as a key to retrieve a password is very ethnocentric since most other countries in the world have either something only vaguely similar (postal codes, but they can contain letters and numbers) or have nothing that serves a similar purpose. These are always interesting requests for help to receive, actually. ![]()
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