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
    2024-07-23T16:44:15+00:00

    Hi silvanet_1,

     

    Welcome to Microsoft Community.

     

     I apologize for any frustration you may be experiencing with Windows 11.

    If you want to stop Windows 11 from asking for a sign-in password or PIN, you can try the following steps:

    1. Press the Windows key + R on your keyboard to open the Run dialog box.
    2. Type "netplwiz" (without quotes) and press Enter.
    3. In the User Accounts window that opens, select your user account.
    4. Uncheck the option that says "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."
    5. Click Apply and enter your current password if prompted.
    6. Click OK to close the User Accounts window.

    Please be aware that disabling the sign-in requirement can potentially reduce the security of your computer. If you choose to do so, ensure that you have other security measures in place to protect your system and data.

     

    Thank you for your patience and understanding, if you have any questions, please feel free to leave us a message.

     

    Best regards

    Brandon | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

    This did NOT work for me either!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-23T16:43:04+00:00

    JeremySmee1943

    Try this using regedit.

    Navigate to \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\Settings\AllowSignInOptions

    In right hand box click on value and change value data from 1 to 0. The just close registry. Simple

    This did NOT work for me!

    Also, after I did this, everything in the "sign in options" is greyed out so, I changed the value back to "1"

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-19T00:01:38+00:00

    How do you make this change to apply to all users on a device? As an System Admin I do NOT want our work devices signed into a Microsoft account. Forcing this on install is annoying, as is having this now pop up almost ever time a user logs out and back in. No one with half a brain sets their device up the way that Microsoft wants users to, and WE NEVER WILL. So stop forcing it already.

    Rant over. How do I apply this change to all users?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-16T08:48:23+00:00

    me too!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-16T08:47:34+00:00

    me too

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