Change password Win10 uses to log in

corblimey · 2017-07-02 19:57:47

This has been annoying me for quite a while, but up til now I wasn't using the PC enough to warrant any serious fixes, but I will be soon. I've got Win10 PC set up to automatically log in, but at some point after doing that, I changed the password I'm using - I think it's my Windows/MS account, and I changed the password…

02-07-2017 07:57PM

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corblimey

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This has been annoying me for quite a while, but up til now I wasn't using the PC enough to warrant any serious fixes, but I will be soon. I've got Win10 PC set up to automatically log in, but at some point after doing that, I changed the password I'm using - I think it's my Windows/MS account, and I changed the password elsewhere.

So Win10 starts up, tries to log in, fails and I have to type in the password by hand. NBD, really, but if it's possible to fix it without changing my Windows password again, that would be great.

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#2 02-07-2017 08:10PM

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Looks like it can be done from the registry by hardcoding it in.

https://www.google.ie/search?q=how+to+automatically+login+windows+10&oq=how+to+automatically+log+in+wdoww&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.8158j0j4&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

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