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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-14T17:54:45+00:00

    Microsoft has become complete garbage with trying to force customers to login to a Microsoft account. I along with countless techs in the business community want to switch away from Microsoft completely.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-13T11:57:06+00:00

    Microsoft should stop asking people for PIN numbers. The reason for why is because once they try to set them up the setup process fails once the Pin number is requested. As a result, Microsoft Edge stays ´unconnected´. The customer is asked to reconnect, but nobody knows what are the numbers required to do so. The only way to my knowledge that people can successfully use a PIN number on a computer device is, if they have a mobile phone and set it up that way. I was able to do this successfully using Google, where I can use a PIN to access my mobile phone. I was repeatedly asked by Microsoft to set up a PIN number to access Windows 11 to no avail because each PIN number was stored on an inaccessible server, once the number had been requested. The best, most convenient and safest way to ensure that a person can access an operating system safely, is to use the old method of password setup. I support the idea that PIN numbers should not be asked for to set up access to an operating system, because the number itself does not show up, is stored in an inaccessible server or if I try to use a password to access my current account it does not open. Yes its about convenience, yes its about security, but after so many attempts to log in to Windows 11 via PIN I think it´s time to consider other options than PIN numbers and security keys.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-09T18:06:43+00:00

    I have same complaint. No way that I have found to stop either the PIN request or Password request. Have modified Registry to include Autologon and Autopassword. I have used Group Policy Editor to modify requirement for PIN. All to no avail. And of course Netplwiz is a joke. Box is unchecked. Makes no difference. If anyone figures out how to stop all this ridiculous security on my own computer that no one but me uses, please let me know.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-07T17:10:57+00:00

    Did all that, the box was unchecked, it STILL does it. What's more the first time this happened I didn't know what password it was asking for. So I created a new one and only THEN found it was the Microsoft password. Despite saving the option to update, it didn't and I have to manually type in the bloody password each bloody time I do anything - like reply to this for example! GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER!!! And while you're at it ffs let us move the taskbar to where we want it not where you think it looks pretty.

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