Windows Sign-in

Hi,

I'd like to disable the Windows login so that no password is required. The option to do this (the Remove button) is greyed out. Is there any way I can still remove it? A reg edit maybe?

Thank you!

 

What OS? Tried netplwiz.exe or control userpasswords2?
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/...word-to-use-this-computer-missing-windows-10/

 

Sorry, it's Windows 10. Are these two programs available on here?

 

Thank you!

 

I haven't tried it yet. Also, I'm reconsidering in view of your thoughts on the subject. It's only the two of us here and very unlikely that it'd be stolen but it's good to know our privacy would not be compromised if it was.

 

The only thing that would save you if it was stolen is having BitLocker on it. Anyone that can use Google can bypass a Windows password in a few seconds.
Are you concerned about security or the perception of security? I mean, I have a padlock on my shed, but I know that doesn't really mean anything.

Welcome too, BTW.

 

Hi foogoo and thank you for the welcome.

The padlock on your shed door is enough to put off the opportunist but not the determined thief. That's why you put a padlock there, to deter the opportunist.

Also, if it's so easy to get around the Windows login, why did Microsoft even bother to put it in place? Perhaps for the same reason that you bought a padlock for your shed door?

I also made the assumption that if a thief stole a password-protected laptop, they'd somehow reformat the drive and use it from afresh. Perhaps I'm being naïve.

 

Hi plodr - Thank you for your response. I'm actually quite surprised to read that businesses are the "cash cow" rather than home users - when you consider the population and that (probably) most people have at least one computer in the house - in the same way that in years gone by most people had a television set. Anyway apart from that digression, yes, I used to work in IT for many years (many years ago) and if I remember rightly it was Windows NT that first introduced the alt-ctrl-del to lock your computer or, (if you forgot to do that before leaving your workstation) it would lock on a timeout system. Then to unlock you had to alt-ctrl-del again. I believe that this system was implemented because this key combination could not be duplicated from a 3rd party device over a network.