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
    2024-12-31T01:58:54+00:00

    Yes I am.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-31T02:06:47+00:00

    All I can do is repeat

    OPEN SETTINGS (this should be easy)
    from the list on the right side choose ACCOUNTS (also easy)
    under the ACCOUNT SETTINGS choose YOUR INFO
    under YOUR INFO there is a section called (once again) Account Settings
    under this ACCOUNT SETTINGS you can choose to use a LOCAL ACCOUNT instead of a Microsoft Account (which they try to make you think is needed)
    once you do this and unless your local account has a password it should boot right to your desktop
    Hope this helps

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-31T04:04:17+00:00

    So. I have just installed windows 11 on 3 pc's recently and had this problem with all.

    It's quite simple to avoid if you are installing new windows. You DO NOT install while online.. Disconnect internet so that you can make a local account which does not need passwords or pins.. When a local account asks you to create a password you leave it blank and there will be no password. There are many youtube tutorials for this.

    If you are already on your pc with an MS account that is asking for pins etc you need to change to a local account and set it to have no password..

    Once again, there are youtube video's to help you and as annoying as it is, It can be fixed with a local account and a few setting changes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-31T05:23:37+00:00

    "If you are already on your pc with an MS account that is asking for pins etc you need to change to a local account and set it to have no password.. Once again, there are youtube video's to help you "

    While what you say is true I would disagree that there are many youtube videos telling you how to do this since I looked at dozens and dozens of YouTube videos trying to find an answer and finally stumbled upon it myself. I found NONE that addressed this problem on a PC with a MS account and a local account, the videos told you to change all kinds of settings and some even regedit things but NONE ever told me to go into my profile (YOUR INFO) and change it to a local account. Perhaps I just did not phase it right since I never saw any video that addressed this

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-11T07:23:32+00:00

    I've tried this. To the letter. Repeatedly. At least in my case, there is NO option that says "Users must enter a name and password to use this computer". In fact, there are no options for anything at all. Here I am spending all this time trying to figure out how to stop being forced to login to my own computer. This is insane.

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