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
    2024-12-28T18:09:59+00:00

    Specialist,

    I have done this several times when I come back to my computer, it requires me to do it again. I have restarted as well.

    At first I skipped having a password in set up but selected a pin because of the suggestion of the guy at the store.

    Then the 4 digit pin was required if I walked away for even 15 minutes and it would not allow a pin to be needed in 4 hours.

    So I tried to get rid of the pin. It would not let me unless I had a password. so I was forced to set up the password. Brazenly, that PW automatically reset the PW for my Hotmail Email account too. Now every 15 minutes I have to enter a much longer and more complicated PW then with the Pin.

    I HATE MICROSOFT for allowing me to set up a pin without telling me I could not change that option without a PW and the PW cannot be deleted.

    I just want to delete the PW and the PIN.

    After this I am going with a MAC where there is ample support to avoid this form of Pirating my computer

    For anyone reading this, when you set up your computer DO NOT OPT TO PUT IN A PIN OR A PASSWORD BECAUSE MICROSOFT WILL OWN YOUR LIFE IN TERMS OF THE HOURS

    I AM going to file a better business bureau complaint and an Attorney general complaint. this is taking up my life by taking time out of my life and it is a really sinister behavior on microsofts part.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-28T22:21:00+00:00

    Go to your power settings in the control panel. It will say Power Options.

    To the right of where it says Balanced (recommended) click on change plan settings. change the settings to Never on both choices. Be sure to click on Save Changes. Go back to the previous screen and do the same with Power saver.

    This should help a lot.

    When ever you change your password, all the links get involved. This is not the fault of Microsoft. You can thank the hackers. It was mandated about four or five years ago by the fed gov to help curb hacking.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-29T10:43:45+00:00

    It is not my Microsoft password that is the issue. I am not asked for that.. The problem is each individual website I use. Most already require their own double verification, now Microsoft requires my pin for all of them too. This is what happens:

    -Go to Okta (for instance)

    -Enter ID & Password

    -Microsoft requires IT'S password or pin

    -Okta requires secondary verification

    I want to eliminate the Microsoft step.

    How do I do THAT,PLEASE?????

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-29T17:18:44+00:00

    sorry I don't have an answer for this topic ?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-30T16:28:03+00:00

    Go to SETTINGS then ACCOUNTS and then YOUR INFO (made no sense and it was an accident I discovered this) then ACCOUNT SETTINGS and then choose LOCAL ACCOUNT, now I can login with no PIN/PASSWORD request (you may need to remove password from your local account if you have one). Everything works perfectly but if you try to access anything run by Microsoft (like this forum) you will have to go through a quick verification (I had to get a 6 digit code via email and enter it to post this answer). Hope it works for you, I was about ready to format the hard drive and start over after 3 months of fighting this

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