If you work on multiple computers, logging into each of them with the same Microsoft account, the OneDrive local folder of every computer you use will synchronize with OneDrive in the cloud AND with each other.
Whenever you have Internet connection, these synchronize with each other according to settings you select. You have OneDrive storage space on a secure Microsoft server ("in the cloud").ģ. You have a OneDrive folder on your computer.Ģ. OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage platform. If you have previously created a local account, I recommend that you change this: Go to Settings in Win 10, click Accounts, and change to "sign in with a Microsoft account." (You can always switch back.) If you are logging into Windows 10 for the first time, log in with your Microsoft Account. More later about how useful (essential) this is. You also get a small amount of free OneDrive storage space (5 GB). These aren't as powerful as the installed full copies of Microsoft Office, but they're pretty good (with most features most people most use). For one thing, you have immediate free access to the online versions of Microsoft Office. Several benefits appear immediately when you create a Microsoft account. (It's free.) You can do this from several locations on the Internet, e.g., or or (The last two are really the same site, entered from different doors, with the same resources available.) If you don't have a Microsoft Account, create one. Whether you pick a local account or a Microsoft Account, you can change to the other one anytime you want. It helps you coordinate all your interaction with Microsoft through a single user name and password. A Microsoft Account is a single login account you create online. This can be either a local account (one that exists only on the hard drive of your computer as in personal copies of Windows in the past) or a Microsoft Account. When you first log into Windows 10, you need to create a user account.
This is accomplished by Win 10's integration with the network storage ("cloud") service, OneDrive, which acts much like a workplace network. The genius of Windows 10 is that - for the first time in personal computer history - individual users have all the added advantages that Windows has always shown on a workplace network. Use a Microsoft Account, not a local user account What follows isn't the only way for Solar Fire to work on Win 10, but is what I consider "best practices" - using the OS the way it was made to be used.ġ. Excluding those Solar Fire problems that are simply SF problems or user errors, I believe the cause of nearly all problems people have with Solar Fire on Windows 10 come from one source: Not using Windows 10 the way it was designed to be used.