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Eliminate sign in Windows 10

  • 16-08-2020 02:50PM
    #1
    ttenneb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭


    Attempts to eliminate either a password or PIN sign in on Windows10 has proven futile. Finally opted to close Microsoft account. Problem persists. Mentioned the account would close in 60 days to facilitate a change of mind but I still have to sign in. Do I have to wait 2 months before I can log in without signing in?


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  • #2
    DopeTech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    ttenneb wrote: »
    Attempts to eliminate either a password or PIN sign in on Windows10 has proven futile. Finally opted to close Microsoft account. Problem persists. Mentioned the account would close in 60 days to facilitate a change of mind but I still have to sign in. Do I have to wait 2 months before I can log in without signing in?

    Just create a local account with no password and copy your data over to it.


  • #3
    ttenneb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭ttenneb


    Thanks, Dopetech. It seems to have worked. Hopefully will behave.


  • #4
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭horse7


    same problem,have used netplwiz,but cant go back to auto sign in, how easy is it to creat local acc with no password and how do you copy data over to it?



  • #5
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭horse7


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/114324213#Comment_114324213

    Could you utube a link or talk me through the process?



  • #6
    DopeTech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119129277#Comment_119129277

    Follow this to create the local account.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-a-local-user-or-administrator-account-in-windows-20de74e0-ac7f-3502-a866-32915af2a34d#WindowsVersion=Windows_10


    Then log out and of your current account and in to the local account.


    As for copying over your files you can do that via This PC -> C drive -> users

    and then copy from your old account to the new account. Don’t copy the entire folder but just the contents from inside it.



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  • #7
    smuggler.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭smuggler.ie


    Run CMD as administrator, copy/paste commands below and hit Enter

    This will create local user without pass, add it to administrators, pass never expire (NoPassUser is the user name, change to your liking)

    net user NoPassUser /passwordreq:no /add
net localgroup administrators NoPassUser /add
WMIC USERACCOUNT WHERE Name='NoPassUser' SET PasswordExpires=FALSE


    history of boards 2021




  • #8
    smuggler.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭smuggler.ie


    BTW, administrator user without password is bad practice.

    history of boards 2021




  • #9
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,793 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    was just going to ask was someone seriously putting an admin login in windows with no password



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