Wherever you look in Windows 10, passwords, passwords, passwords are everywhere ... What is most sad, they are tied not only to user accounts, but also to Microsoft registration data. Naturally, this causes a lot of problems or complaints from Windows 10 users. However, you can disable the password request. For this, even the system itself offers several simple methods.
How to turn off password prompts on startup in Windows 10: standard method
As you know, man is not a machine. He cannot afford to remember too much information. The same applies to passwords, because even when registering (creating the Microsoft "account"), the official resource refuses to accept primitive combinations at all. Therefore, you have to come up with abstruse passwords, and it’s very easy to forget them.
In order to eliminate such incidents in the future, we will consider how to disable the password request at login. Windows 10 allows you to do this through special settings that can be accessed by entering the netplwiz command in the Run console.
Here, you immediately need to pay attention to two main conditions. Firstly, initially the login should be done under the admin, which is the case on most computers. Secondly, it is recommended to change these parameters only if only one user is working behind the terminal (roughly speaking, if the computer is intended exclusively for home use).
So, in Windows 10, you can disable the password request for entering the aforementioned settings by selecting the desired username from the list and unchecking the password request line. When confirming the changes, a new window will appear in which you will need to register the existing password, and then confirm it. After that, the so-called automatic login mode will be activated.
Note: if the computer system is currently connected to the domain, these settings will be inactive and you will have to use the registry to disable the password. But more on that later.
How to disable the password request when waking up Windows 10 (exit hibernation mode)?
Another "trick" of the system is that by default it requires the activation of a password when exiting the so-called sleep state (hibernation), if it is turned on. Mostly it is used by office workers who need to go away from time to time for business purposes, and laptop owners who have configured the appropriate action with the cover (when it is closed, the device automatically goes into sleep mode).
How to disable the password request for this situation in Windows 10? There is nothing easier. To do this, you will need to use the settings of the current power scheme in the corresponding section of the standard “Control Panel”. For laptop owners, you can use the right-click menu on the battery icon in the system tray to access the settings.
First, select the option to configure the scheme, and then use the additional parameters. Next, go to the section of inaccessible parameters, where we simply uncheck the item for password requirements.
Disabling password entry through the system registry
In Windows 10, you can disable the password request through the registry editor, which is called through the "Run" console by entering the regedit command.
Here you need to select the HKLM branch, and then through the SOFTWARE section go down to the Winlogon directory. In the window on the right, you should change the values of several keys:
- AutoAdminLogon - value "1";
- DefaultPassword - current account password.
You can also change the DefaultDomainName key to the desired domain name or computer name. Finally, in the default user key DefaultUserName, you can specify a different name and then enter the appropriate password.
Local accounts
There is another way to solve the problem of how to turn off the password request in Windows 10 when trying to log in. To do this, go to the settings section and use the account settings.
On the left there is an entry parameter item. In the right part of the window, from the re-entry requirements menu, simply select the value “Never”.
Finally, if you are using a local account, you should use command line activation from the administrator (cmd command in the Run console or manually launching a file with the corresponding rights from the System32 folder). In the console window that appears, you need to register the line net users, and then use the net user command username / active: yes (the user name must be entered as it is registered in the system, for example, Administrator or Administrator, depending on the language of the system itself) and press input.
Instead of a total
It remains to add that here are the simplest methods to disable the password in the tenth version of Windows. The fact is that similar operations can be performed both in the Group Policy Editor and in the administration section. But they will simply duplicate the values of the registry keys. In addition, if changes are made in the policies section, then changing the values of the registry entries will fail later. Therefore, as the simplest and most affordable means, you can use everything that was described above, not to mention the deletion of local registration data or even the Microsoft “account” itself.