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

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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!

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2025-06-15T13:43:58+00:00
1. Press Win + R, type netplwiz, and hit Enter.
2. In the User Accounts window, select your account.
3. Uncheck "Users must enter a username and password to use this computer."
4. Click Apply, enter your password, and confirm.
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Anonymous

2025-06-15T02:20:38+00:00

I am having the same problem, I cannot use my password, and it is asking me for a code and then when I put in my code I cancel and that is the only way now, I can get onto my computer. I think it was an update that caused this problem. A lot of people are having similar issues.
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Anonymous

2025-06-10T13:50:51+00:00

After some searchs, what really works for me was this:

Open regedit and change this key:

Computador\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PasswordLess\Device

Change DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion from 2 to 0.

Restart.

Win + R and open netplwiz.

Now have an option to uncheck: Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.

Just uncheck and it is done.

This worked beautifully. My 24H2 build started asking to use my phone (which I have never, and will never --link to windows since they want us to sell our proverbial souls to do that) with a now --not so subtle, happens every reboot-- in my way idiotic annoying BS popup dialog and no checkbox or button to never ask me again. Bill Gates may have been a bit mroe than up-tight and more than somewhat ruthless, but he made one heck of an operating system. It's nevwer been the same since the Appleists took over and began turning Windows into a Bloated Ho known now as Offendows - HAHAHHAH. It would be soooooooo nice if someone would finally come up with alternative.. I know that's no simple task, but none of my clients would ever move to linux.. It's too much of a complicated PITA and I won't move for those reasons, and becasue it can't support my sound card, as well as for various and sundry other reasons.

This registry setting seems to have done the trick TG.. Bless you
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Anonymous

2025-05-17T13:03:01+00:00

RECENTLY THEY MADE SECURITY QUESTION REQUIRED ASWELL WHEN EASILY WEAK SPOT AND HACKABLE/BYPASSABLE VIA REGISTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous

2025-05-13T04:32:58+00:00

I'm looking into Unix. Unix has a much Stabler operating system and minus all the ****. They have a Windows type of interface. They have something for everybody and it's free. That's going to be my next operating system I'm pretty sure and you can even use Windows programs in a Windows environment on Unix. They got two different ones that are really good for this. They also have the pro version and the free version. You should check it out Sharon and everybody else. We don't have to put up with this ****. Most the giant businesses use Unix anyways cuz it's a much Stabler operating system. Two flip off fingers to you, new Microsoft owners. Old Microsoft was excellent. You guys are screwed
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