Need Help Fixing Windows 10 Adding a Mail Account, Error Code: 0x8007042b whenever I try to add gmail or Yahoo

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EDIT: This has nothing to do with the Mail & Calendar client, nor Google itself. Something within Windows itself is causing the error. As I've removed the Mail & Calendar app, and just tried syncing google to my windows within settings>email & accounts>Add an account.

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So I'll start with a quick explanation when this started happening, because it was just yesterday it was working perfectly fine. I simply updated my motherboard Bios yesterday and when I logged back into Windows 10 my mail client said I needed to update my login credentials. Giving me error Code 0x8007042b. Granted I could still access my email which was odd, but I was trying to clear this error message. So I removed all my accounts thinking I should just re-add them. Well that was mistake #1 Now I can no longer add any gmail accounts. This error happens when I click Add an account, then click Google or Yahoo!.

Clicking Google Instant Error Message

I've been searching around for a solution however everything I find doesn't work. Also lets be clear here, the problem isn't gmail. I'm not going to go into my gmail account and do the POP/IMAP WORKAROUND, because that's what that is, it is a workaround, NOT a solution to this error.

Other solutions I've tried that didn't work.

Go to your users folder (e.g. C:\Users\John).
Right click, select properties, Security, Advanced.
Click Add, select entity, advanced, search.
Click on ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES, accept. Select Full Control and apply (Ignore errors trying to apply permissions).
Then:

Click on start and type “Services”.
Right click on “Services” and select “Run as Administrator”.
In the Services Window, look for Credential Manager Service and “Stop” it.
Restart the computer and “Start” the Credential Manager Service and set it to “Automatic”.
Restart the computer and it should work fine.

Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/apps_windows_10-outlook_mail/cant-add-gmail-account-to-windows-10-mail-app/97d4e308-54a8-4afe-b74f-501b1ea0fa2a?page=12

I tried repairing my Windows 10 install and that didn't help.

However there is one thing I did find out. If I make a new user account on my Windows 10 install. I can then go into Mail and successfully add a google account. So this leads me to believe that the issue has something to do with the User account. I can't find where Mail keeps any of its settings or files that would cause this error from happening. As something is different from the new user I made to my Main User account that would be causing this error.

I'm not really sure why a motherboard bios update would cause this error to be happening, but it did.

Lots of kudos for reading this and understanding that the usual answers as "Solutions" do NOT work, and not suggesting them. Thank you.

KillerXtreme

Posted 2020-01-19T18:45:05.640

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Does this answer your question? How to solve error 0x8007042b while connecting a Google account on Windows 10?

– Moab – 2020-01-19T18:52:19.817

I don't think you read my question, as I stated I won't use the workaround because that's not the proper way of implementing google and its only good for getting your mail through imap. And adding "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" to my security is not only a security nightmare, but it also did not work anyways. Neither of these things have cleared the 0x8007042b error. It has something to do with my Windows User profile and I'm not really sure what. – KillerXtreme – 2020-01-19T19:26:24.533

Since your have not really listed all you have tried, (my guess), have you tried DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth or sfc /ScanNow – vssher – 2020-01-21T05:58:47.467

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