Just like we need less government in our lives we also need less Microsoft in our daily computing lives . We should have absolute control of our PC experience.
Set MS Windows 11 permanently to stop asking for sign-in password or pin
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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2024-02-13T21:43:39+00:00 -
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2024-02-20T17:04:26+00:00 I have exactly the same problem. Exceedingly annoying. I have even created an AutoLogon and AutoPassword in the Registry. Even that doesn't stop the "DEMAND" that I must have a PIN. Hate it!! Has anyone figured this out? There must be something in the Registry that triggers the request for a PIN to be created. If I can find out what it is I will change it. I don't mind making changes to the Registry with regedit.
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Anonymous
2024-02-20T17:11:48+00:00 This doesn't work. The box is not checked but I still have to enter a PIN or a Password if I select "oyher sign-in options". Worst still, on a cold reboot systems says I MUST create a PIN. Why? Anyway to bypass this requirement? Turing it off in Settings doesn't help. I think I have tried just about every so-called "fix" I could find on the internet. Still have to create a PIN. Hate it!!
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Anonymous
2024-02-20T17:34:44+00:00 Try this using regedit. It worked for me - at least for now
Navigate to \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\Settings\AllowSignInOptions
In right hand box click on value. Change value data from 1 to 0. This turns off all sign-in options & requirements. If you don't like it you can always change it back to 1.
I don't know why Microsoft won't tell us this stuff.
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Anonymous
2024-02-20T17:36:39+00:00 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