Set MS Windows 11 permanently to stop asking for sign-in password or pin

Anonymous
2023-10-20T13:34:38+00:00

Please Microsoft, stop being such an annoying nanny.

My personal desktop PC at home is not accessible to anyone except me. When I turn it on I don't want to be constantly prompted to sign in to my Microsoft account (which itself is endlessly annoying as you can't just sign in). MS insists on the endless complicated sign ins. Even after setting my account not to require a password or pin to auto-start, MS keeps re-setting that. I'm not even allowed to set an easy repeated pin entry or password. Google is also doing that ****. I can't tell you how many times a day I have to respond to emails or text messages with verification codes and 2FAs. They want scan my face or use my fingerprint to supposedly make it easier -- at what additional cost?

Please don't lecture me on security. I have a hearty password manager, encrypted router authentication settings, and countless other protections. This is not a publicly accessible laptop or phone.

This nonsense is incredible. It affects everything and makes you waste an enormous amount of time.

While I'm at it, they're criminal highwaymen. I've spent months trying to speak to a live support agent about a deranged licensing system. I had a valid product key for over a decade. My PC could not run Windows 11 (more nanny nonsense). So, I bought some hardware and upgraded that PC.

I made the harrowing mistake of updating windows during my hardware process. In that update, Windows wiped out my product key from the registry and took me on this months long rabbit hole of their idiotic explanations in a circuitous meandering labyrinthine maze that always ends up without solution and sends you back to the same old starting place.

They can easily find that my Windows installation was used without any licensing question for a decade. I could even provide them over two years of regular update installations, but they want me to go through hundreds of storage boxes to find my original disk and key. I've been there before with XP and 7. Even when I find the box with the key on it, their computerized activation system refuses to let me use it. Simply ****?

They've so completely complicated their licensing structure and definitions into a shell game, with that garbage excuses gatekeeping extortion scam. They're running a criminal ransom operation. When you're upgrading hardware you will finally give up and buy a new digital key -- crooks. Then, after I was able to finally activate Windows 10, I chose to upgrade to Windows 11. Now the same **** is happening all over again. They want me to spend another $120 to buy another key. What incredible A**H***S!

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Accounts, profiles, and login

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-18T15:37:28+00:00

    Doesn't work. Annoying. Keeps asking for pin or password.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-04T06:27:06+00:00

    None of this works, the reason is because you setup windows with a Microsoft account. All you have to do is go to settings/accounts/your info and create a local account.

    Once you do that you can then use the netplwiz command, uncheck the box and press apply.. You will be asked to provide a password for this user that will be automatically used.. Done. You now do not need to login..

    However, after an update you may get a screen on startup saying you have issues to fix. These issues are signing into Onedrive and Windows Hello.. I got this today and there is no option to decline or skip. There is only an option to remind me in 3 days... **** is going on..

    Am i going to be forced to use Windows Hello ETC on a local account... Anyone help?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-25T10:11:57+00:00

    Thnaks, this worked as a charm for me.

    I guess you have to administrator right for the user to make this work.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-09T14:21:44+00:00

    if you dont have the option box mentioned add this to the regestry:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PasswordLess\Device]

    "DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion"=dword:00000000

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