How to remove the Windows login password? The Windows 8 operating system has an option to sign in using a Microsoft account. After updating the operating system, you may experience problems with the need to enter a password in Windows 8.1, because logging into the system without entering the password will not be possible.
Owners of copies of the Windows 8 operating system can upgrade their operating system to Windows 8.1 for free by downloading it from the Windows Store. There are a number of changes made to this version of the Windows operating system.
In particular, the “Start” button has been added, it is also now possible to boot the system to the Desktop immediately, bypassing the “start screen”, synchronization has been improved, etc.
Why did this question arise? During the process of updating Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, a situation arises when you will be required to enter the password for your Microsoft account if the Internet connection is active on your computer during the installation of the operating system.
A new installation of Windows 8.1 will also require you to enter your Microsoft account information if you are connected to the Internet during the installation process.
If there is no Internet connection, you will be prompted to create a local account. The local account password will also have to be entered each time before starting the operating system.
Sign in to your Microsoft account
When updating the system on my computer, a page opened asking me to enter my Microsoft account information. At the same time, there was no option to skip this step, because at this time my computer was connected to the Internet.
Two options were offered: maintain data from an existing account or create a new account. Since I had such an account, I entered my data and then continued installing the Windows 8.1 operating system on my computer.
After the installation of the system is completed, a tiled interface opens - the “start screen”. Now it is possible to immediately implement in Windows 8.1 without changing system settings, changing the startup settings with a couple of mouse clicks.
After finishing work on the computer, the operating system will be disconnected from the power supply.
When you start your computer again, during the system boot process, the “Sign in to your Microsoft account” window will open. The user will have to enter a password to log into Windows. This will happen every time you start the operating system.
You must have a Microsoft account on your computer to use the Windows Store, to access other services, and you can also log in to Skype using your account. Your data will be synced across all devices from which you log into your account.
If you log in using a local account, you will also be required to enter a password before starting the system.
Login using a password is made in order to increase security, so that no one other than the owner can access the system and computer user data. If the computer has only one owner, then constantly entering a password will be inconvenient and may annoy the user. If the password for the account is complex (as it should be), then it will be difficult to even remember it.
Therefore, you will need to solve the following problem: when starting Windows 8.1, login without entering a password at boot.
Login without entering a password in Windows 8.1
To do this, you will need to right-click on the “Start” button and select “Run” from the context menu.
You can open the “Run” window in another way by simultaneously pressing the “Windows” and “R” keys on your keyboard.
Then in the “Run” window, in the “Open” field, you will need to enter the expression: “netplwiz” (without quotes), and then click on the “OK” button.
In the “Run” window, in the “Open” field, you can also enter another expression - “control userpasswords2”, anyway, after this the “User Accounts” window will open.
Another way to get to user accounts: enter the expression “netplwiz” in the “Search” field, and after the search result is displayed, click on the application.
This will open the “User Accounts” window. In this window, in the “Users” tab, you should uncheck the box next to “Require username and password.” Next, click on the “OK” button.
This will open the Automatic Login window. In this window, you will need to enter the user's email mailbox address, then enter and confirm the password, and then click on the "OK" button.
Please note that in the “User” field, Windows enters the username (nickname) by default. If you use a local account or an account, you will need to enter different information.
In the “User” field you will need to enter:
- Local account - enter the user name (nickname).
- Account - enter your email address.
If you think that this is all over, then it means that you are too optimistic. After simply restarting the Windows operating system, you will no longer have to enter the password, unless the computer was disconnected from the power supply.
After you turn off the power to your computer, when you boot into Windows 8.1 again, you will again see the “Sign in to your Microsoft account” window, where you will need to enter your Microsoft account password.
Therefore, you will need to make some more settings. To do this, you will need to enter the system power settings.
Disable password prompt on wakeup
To enter, you will need to right-click on the “Start” button, and in the context menu that opens, click on “Power Management”.
You can also access power management from the Control Panel, as it is done in Windows 8.
In the “Power Options” window, on the left side of the window, you will need to click on the “Require password on wakeup” link.
This will open the System Settings window. In this window, you can see that in the settings for the power buttons and enabling password protection on wakeup, the items “Require a password (recommended)” and “Do not require a password” are not active. By default, the “Require password (recommended)” option is enabled.
To make changes to these settings, click on the “Change settings that are currently unavailable” link.
After this, you will need to activate the “Do not ask for password” option, and then click on the “Save changes” button.
That's it, now after these settings you will no longer need to re-enter your account password every time you boot the system. Logging into Windows 8.1 will occur without entering a password, and the account will not be disabled on the computer.
Conclusions of the article
The user can remove entering a password to log into the Windows 8.1 operating system for faster system startup on the computer if logged in from a Microsoft account.
How to remove the login password in Windows 8.1 (video)
Hello, friends! Today we are disabling the password prompt when signing in to Windows 8.
When switching to the new Windows 8 operating system, forcing the user to constantly enter a password when logging into the system, not everyone liked it. How to disable password prompt in Windows 8 and 8.1?
Launching a new version of the Windows 8 operating system is almost twice as fast as the boot speed of Windows 7. However, all the joy of such a fast boot is spoiled by the system’s obsessive requirement to enter a password over and over again. Of course, safety comes first, but why not give the user the right to make an independent choice in resolving this issue.
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Let's consider the first method, through search or command line. Using the key combination Win+r or Start - right mouse button, select Find or Run and enter the command (without quotes).
A window with user accounts will open in front of us.
Select all usernames and uncheck the “Require username and password” checkbox. The system will ask you to enter your existing account password twice. Click OK.
If for some reason the first method did not bring the desired result and the password request for logging into Windows 8.1 did not turn off, then there is another method.
Method two.
1. Go to the main screen of Windows 8.1, from the desktop just click “Start”
2. In the upper right corner, click on your account.
3. In the drop-down menu, select “Change Avatar”
4. Click on the item at the top - disable.
Thus, we unlink our account from our Microsoft account, which turns our account into a local one.
5. In the window for entering Name and Passwords, leave or enter a new account name, the most important thing is DO NOT ENTER THE PASSWORD. Next... Everything is ready).
A password ensures the security of any operating system. Thanks to it, no one can watch what you did on your PC while you're not around. It is clear that the Windows password will not save you from attackers, for example, with a boot disk, but this can take a lot of time. In a simple situation, if you step away for 5 minutes, just press Win+L and the device will be locked. The creators of Windows 10 paid great attention to the security algorithm: now there is not only a password, but also a PIN code. But sometimes they are simply not needed, for example, when your computer is used at home. As it turned out, disabling the “Ten” password is not so easy, but there are still ways and there are many of them. We’ll talk about how to remove the Windows 10 password when logging in in this article.
Below you will find all the information on how to reset your Windows 10 password upon login and after waking up your PC. You can do this through the control panel, registry editor, power configuration (this option is needed to disable the code request when turning on the computer after hibernation) or applications that will do everything for you. You can even completely remove a user's password. All this is described in detail below, with each step accompanied by a screenshot for clarity.
In order to disable the request for confidential data when logging in, you need to have access to administrator rights (usually all PCs have them). At the end of the article you will find a video that also describes the process of disabling the password in Windows 10.
- We simultaneously press two keys Win + R (Win is a button located, most often, in the bottom row of the keyboard on both sides, on which the Windows logo is depicted). As soon as a small window opens, enter the word “netplwiz” or “control userpasswords2” (no need to copy quotes). Then click the virtual button labeled “OK”. Both of these commands give the same result.
- To remove the password when logging into Ten, select the user who needs to remove authorization and uncheck the box next to the item indicated in the screenshot. When the setup is complete, press the key labeled “OK.”
- A window will open in which you will need to enter the password for your Microsoft account. Next, click “OK” and thereby confirm the action.
After closing the window, your PC will not require you to enter authorization data the next time it boots.
Editing the registry
If the option to edit your account for some reason does not work, you can try to disable the password in other ways. One of them is the registry editor. But before we begin, we warn you - your password will be stored in clear form as one of the Windows registry key values, which greatly reduces the security of the operating system.
Note: Below we will show how to set up autologin when logging in through the registry, but without exposing your account data. Third party software will be used.
- As in the previous case, let’s launch the utility we need. Press Win+R. The editor itself is available in all versions of Windows. When the Run window opens, enter the value “regedit” (don’t forget to remove the quotes) and click OK.
- Next we go here: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”, and then: “Software\Microsoft\Windows NT” and “CurrentVersion\Winlogon”.
- You need to change the value of the “AutoAdminLogon” key to 1 (to expand it, just double-click on the label with the left mouse button).
- Now we need to change the value of the DefaultDomainName key to the name of our computer. You can view it in the system properties. To do this, open the Windows 10 search tool (located on the left side of the taskbar) and write “system”. Next, click on the item indicated in the screenshot.
- In the window that opens we will see the name of our computer (see screenshot).
- It is impossible to copy data from here, and rewriting it is inconvenient, especially in our case. If your PC has a complex name, click on the “Change settings” button.
- Next, open the “Computer name” tab and press the “Change” button.
- Now the name of our PC can be copied.
- After we have received the computer name, we proceed to modify the “DefaultDomainName” key (if there is none, you can create it through the right-click context menu).
- We will assume that the key has been created. Launch it by double-clicking the left mouse button and set the value to the PC name or your nickname when logging into Windows.
After pressing the "OK" key, you can close the editor and restart the computer. Its next launch should occur without the need to enter a login and password.
Attention! If the method does not work using the computer name, try entering your account name instead, which you can see by pressing Win + R and entering the command “netplwiz” without quotes.
Removing password entry when waking up the PC
It often happens that after some time of work you leave your computer or laptop, and then return, wake it up and are faced with the need to enter a password. This is done for the same purpose - data security, but if you have to log in several times a day, it gets boring.
In order to correct the situation, there are several methods in the Windows operating system, which we will consider below. First, we’ll talk about the simplest and safest – the standard “Tens” function. Let's figure out how it works.
- First, launch system settings. They can be called through the OS search. To do this, click on the magnifying glass icon and enter the word “parameters” in the search bar. Next, select the element we need in the search results.
- Now you need to find the “Login Options” section. To do this, we use the search settings algorithm that is already known to us. Enter the phrase in the line indicated in the screenshot and click on the desired item.
- In the new window, under “Login required,” expand the drop-down menu and select the “Never” option.
Ready. Now, when you wake from sleep mode, the operating system will not ask for your password.
- Right-click on an empty area of the desktop and select the “Display Settings” menu.
- On the left side of the window, click on “Power and sleep mode”.
- Next – “Advanced power settings”.
- In the newly opened window, select “Configure power supply scheme”.
- Then click on the inscription indicated in the picture.
- In the “Require password on wakeup” section, select “Never”.
After this, Windows 10 will stop caring about your security and asking for authorization after waking up.
Note: on some computers or laptops this method may not work due to the complete absence of the “Require password on wakeup” menu. In this case, use another method, which is described below.
Editing the registry and group policy editor
You can prevent Windows from requiring authentication after waking up from hibernation not only through the power menu, but also through the Group Policy Editor. Below we will figure out exactly how to do this.
- Let’s use the “Run” system utility, familiar from the options described above. To do this, launch it with the Win + R keys and enter the command “gpedit.msc” into the field, of course, without quotes. When finished, click “OK”.
- Next, go to the “Administrative Templates” directory – “System”, and then – “Power Management” and “Hibernation Settings”.
- Find the key that we have highlighted in the screenshot with a red frame and set its value to “Disabled”. At the same time, if you have a laptop and a battery, there will be 2 such parameters. Change each of them.
- Double-click with the left mouse button on the indicated entry and change the value to “Disabled”. When finished, click “OK”.
After this, Windows 10 will no longer ask you to enter your password the next time you wake up your PC or laptop.
Attention! The Group Policy Editor is only available in the Pro version of Windows 10. For other systems, you should use the option with the Registry Editor.
Editing the system registry
For Windows 10 Home owners, we have prepared another way to disable authentication when the system wakes up. The fact is that there is no Group Policy editor and installing it is quite difficult. It is much easier to use the standard registry editor and change the key responsible for autologin. This is exactly what we will do now.
- First, let's open the registry editor. Press Win+R and enter the command “regedit” in the window that opens.
- When the utility opens, go to the path indicated in the screenshot and click on the folder highlighted with a red frame once.
If such a section does not exist, it can be created using the right-click context menu.
- On the right side of the Registry Editor, you need to create two new values if you don't have them. This is done by right-clicking on the empty space. Select the mode indicated in the screenshot.
- After both items have been created, set their value to “0”. To do this, simply double-click on the entry (left mouse button). When the operation is completed, click “OK” and close the system registry.
Ready. The hated password will no longer bother you.
Attention! You may need to reboot the machine for the changes to take effect and for the authentication prompt to disappear.
How to remove Windows 10 password using third-party software
There is a program called Autologon for Windows. It is able to disable the password request without any manipulations with the PC. You can download the application on our website. We took it from the official resource, so the originality of the distribution is guaranteed.
Once the program is launched, you will be asked to accept the terms of the license agreement and enter your Windows password. Next, click “Enable”.
The application will notify you that it was successful and that your password is securely encrypted. All that remains to be done is to click on “OK”.
If you want to enable password protection for your computer again, simply launch Autologon for Windows again and click on the “Disable” button.
For the program to work, you must run it as an administrator.
How to completely remove a password
The password can be completely erased from the system. Let's figure out how to do this correctly.
First, we will use the command line functionality:
- Initially, we launch the command line itself (necessarily as an administrator). To do this, launch a Windows search and enter the query “Command Prompt”. When the desired result appears, right-click on it and select the “Run as administrator” entry.
- As soon as the utility opens, copy the command “net user” (without quotes), paste it into the command line and press Enter.
- After the operator is triggered, we will see a list of all Windows users. Remember your nickname - we will need it in the next step.
- Paste the command “net user username” (without quotes) and press Enter.
After confirming the action, the password will be deleted and you will no longer need to enter it, which is what we needed.
Attention! If your nickname consists of several words, be sure to put it in quotes.
Additional Information
Many users complain that even after deactivating the password using all the methods described, they may need to enter it again. And this happens precisely after setting the computer to a screen saver. Below we will figure out how to get around this inconvenience and disable the password when logging into Windows 10.
- We launch the “Run” utility by simultaneously pressing Win + R and enter the command “control desk.cpl,@screensaver” into the window that appears, naturally, without quotes.
- Disable the screen saver - the item indicated on the screenshot should contain the word “No”.
- Uncheck the item highlighted in the red frame in the screenshot and click OK.
After this, the screensaver will be disabled and will not appear even after restarting your computer.
A new feature has appeared in the “Ten” - “Dynamic blocking”, which can be configured at: “Settings” - “Accounts”, and then “Login Options”. If this mode is active, Windows 10 will set the password when the connection with a mobile gadget connected via WI-FI or Bluetooth is interrupted.
Video instruction: how to remove the password when logging into Windows 10
We hope our article will help you get rid of annoying authorization, which is absolutely unnecessary on your home PC, and completely disable password entry in Windows 10. If you have any problems, express them in the comments, and we will certainly help you.
If you have set a password for your account (the user under which you boot into Windows), but you don’t want to enter it every time, then you can disable password entry.
Before you disable password entry in Windows, it is important to understand that anyone who can approach your computer can also gain access to any data on it. But when accessing via the network, the password will still be valid.
This instruction is also useful if you created a new user, and Windows stopped automatically logging in with your user, stopping at the welcome screen. The instructions are valid for all modern versions of Windows (7-8-10)
Instructions for disabling password entry in Windows 7, 8, 10:
1. Click " Start", write in the search field " netplwiz" (without quotes), press the " key on your keyboard Enter"[you can also press the Win+R keys, in the "Run" window that appears, in the "Open" field, enter "netplwiz" or "Control Userpasswords2" without quotes and press "Enter"];
2. In the “User Accounts” window that appears, in the “Users on this computer” list select the desired username(the one you are running under in Windows);
3. Uncheck near the inscription “Require username and password”;
4. Click the button OK" and enter the password of the user selected in the second step twice;
