How To Set Up Microsoft Account On Windows 8

How-do-you-do, yous are watching VisiHow and today nosotros are going to teach you how to ready your own Microsoft business relationship on your Windows 8 estimator. Y'all can also set upwards a Microsoft business relationship without a Windows computer; nonetheless, this is going to focus on the steps necessary to have with your Windows calculator.

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The get-go thing nosotros are going to do is to press the 'Windows key', which is the push button adjacent to your infinite bar

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Ane printing of that brings upwards our Windows tile carte

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Nosotros are going to go down and click on 'settings'

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If you exercise not have the 'PC settings', or the gear icon, you lot can too click up on search in the upper correct-hand corner and you can type in 'settings'

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There we accept 'PC settings' pops up there that is the first 1, and so we will go ahead and click that

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It is the aforementioned no affair which ane you lot click.
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This will open up upward the PC settings window.
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For those of you who have watched the earlier tutorials

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You will notice we accept our customized lock screen, and our customized business relationship picture here. We accept not gear up a picture countersign nevertheless. We will go to that in some other video on movie passwords. Anyhow, back to our Microsoft business relationship. Nosotros are going to click on 'accounts'. This is under the PC settings options. We are going to click on accounts and this will open the accounts window.
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Nosotros accept the option to choose from our accounts, sign in options, and other accounts

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What we are interested in doing specifically is connecting to a Microsoft account. Nosotros are going to click on that. Yous volition notice that my mouse pointer does not change; however, this is a clickable link, then click on 'connect to a Microsoft account'.
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Sign into your Microsoft account

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At present, if you already accept a Microsoft account you tin can sign in, enter in your email hither in the email field, enter in the password, and select next.
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However, we are going to exist setting upward a new business relationship

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So "don't accept an account?" 'Create a new account'. We will create a new business relationship.
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If you lot are interested in the privacy statement, you are going to want click on 'privacy statement'

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However, equally stated, we are simply going to create a new account

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Now we take clicked on 'create a new business relationship', and here we are beginning proper noun, last name, email address, we can fix our own e-mail address at Outlook.com or Hotmail.com

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Alternatively, nosotros can use our favorite email address

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This means you can use your existing email accost and you don't need to modify anything. Over again, use our favorite e-mail, which gives united states of america a Microsoft account, or get your ain one.
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Nosotros will get alee and create passwords when we get down to that department

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"Passwords must take 8 characters and 2 of the following: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and symbols". Symbols are things like exclamation points, periods, and the ampersand sign, dollar signs. You lot need two of them, two different ones.
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'State/Region', y'all are going to select the country or region where you're from

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Honestly, nosotros e'er recommend selecting the Usa unless you're in a nether recognized country where everything is easy, like the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Commonwealth of australia, France, Spain, Canada, and much of Europe.
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Withal, you lot will notice on the list we have the Usa and then you tin can scroll up to Canada, but that'southward all North America

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Things in the Us and Canada are very dissimilar than things in for example United mexican states are, peculiarly if you lot use Xbox live, or services like that. Yous will notice this.
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VisiHow second name: how email address:, why of course that is going to exist, VisiHow@Outlook.com. Create a password, countersign is created and United States.
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'The states', every bit I said earlier, that's what country nosotros want to choose

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Now nosotros are going to click on 'adjacent'

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'Select a Birthday', Let'southward brand this something relatively piece of cake to remember 1979, 'gender'- non specified, VisiHow is a none gender fauna

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'Phone number', 'country code', state an 'alternative e-mail address', in that location we get, "of the two options you have to give us one". And so, let's pick an alternate electronic mail accost info@VisiHow.com. That'southward pretty easy, right?
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At present are going to go ahead and click on 'next'

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Equally you tin see, we can get a message sent there. If we can't remember the password that'due south fine that's fine. "You tin can become a message sent to this electronic mail address to help you reset your password in case you can't sign in", so allow's go alee and click next.
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Which is a test that basically confirms if you are a existent person or a reckoner, however, these days, computers can often pass them. I run into Y5Q56D, I don't know if information technology is case sensitive only hopefully it'south not.
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"Enhance my online experiences past letting Microsoft ad use my account information", No

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"Send me promotional offers from Microsoft", No, I get enough spam already

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Thank you.
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"Clicking next means that you agree to the Microsoft services agreement and privacy in cookie argument"

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If yous are on this page, yous can click on the Microsoft services agreement that will open up a window and allow you lot read nearly that. You could likewise click on the privacy in cookie argument. However, it is my personal opinion that neither of these items matter because if yous disagree with them, information technology means that you are not going to click next and you cannot utilise the service.
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So click 'next', considering I need to utilize the service

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Aid usa protect yous, "Accessing sensitive data from your business relationship or device, or if we observe suspicious business relationship activity, we will ask for a security lawmaking to verify your identity

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(If you sign infrequently on this device we won't ask y'all to verify after this)". "How would you like to get this code?" Email. Cheers. "To verify that this is your email address, enter it below and click next". Okay, and then let's enter in our electronic mail address and nosotros are going to become alee and click 'side by side', at which point we will receive a code.
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Okay, "if (your email address) matches the e-mail address on your account, nosotros volition send you lot a lawmaking"

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Okay, so at present we need a code. Let'southward open our electronic mail real quick. I'm going to step away from the screen, open the email, and I volition exist correct dorsum. Okay, we are back. Interestingly enough I did not immediately receive the code. I'one thousand going to paste that code in. I received that code. It did take me a couple minutes to receive the code and I was a bit surprised by that. Yet, I approximate sometimes these things take fourth dimension, even if it is Microsoft or Google doing the sending.
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You are going to click on 'next' to confirm our lawmaking

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Nosotros take to expect, "delight wait", which is something, unfortunately, you become to see a lot with Windows

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Okay, "OneDrive is your deject storage, your photographic camera curlicue, PC settings volition automatically exist backed upwardly to the cloud, and new documents yous create will automatically be saved to OneDrive by default

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That way you lot can become to them from any device, even if something happens to your PC". Okay, then basically what this ways in unproblematic terms, is that if yous load upward some pictures Here nosotros see the photos, documents, or your computer settings, All of these will be saved into the cloud. At present if that is a bit confusing for y'all in elementary terms it means that if your computer dies, for lack of a improve term, and you need to get a new computer, As long as you go a Windows reckoner, When you sign in to Microsoft, They will enquire y'all if you would like to synchronize your cloud settings. and all of your documents, pictures and everything else that yous had before, On the other PC, will exist available from the cloud. This is a very user-friendly and helpful setting, unless you are doing things you exercise not want other people to see in which case you lot probably do non want washed.
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I use this I love it so I'k going to click 'next'

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And so "switch to a Microsoft business relationship on this PC"

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At present I'chiliad going to change my existing account to a Microsoft account, this isn't going to modify anything other than my files, simply what is going to allow me to do is to recover my password should I lose that password.
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This may take a minute while it prepares the business relationship, which is fine with me

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I hope that those of you watching this video are non going to send me spam. That is probably going to happen.
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My account is now connected

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I have my Microsoft business relationship fix and if I want to go get more account settings I can jump correct here to the 'more account settings online', but that is another video, which you will have to click the link to visit otherwise

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