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I have setup Win 10 computers for my clients many times and have never needed to answer security questions. Today, I had to reset the OS back to factory specs due to a failure at the client. Now, when running through the initial setup it is REQUIRING answers to 3 security questions with, apparently, no way to bypass it.
I need to bypass this. How can I do that?
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Hi Guys, Tech here who also sets up loads of PC's for clients, best option is to skip entering a password (blank it out) and continue. They can be set later if a client wants, and most of the time we just re-image from there or start adding users and delete the dummy account.
But boy I'm sick of hearing Cortana's questions...
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It will eliminate the SECURITY questions being required, but none of the other set up questions. And to be fair they are all rather necessary for gathering the basic info needed to install/configure.
This makes sense for your every day home user who only has to go through this process every time they set up a new computer, but for a professional working with many customer PCs and VMs, it's a new PITA (along with the rest of this new setup process). Usually I'm just creating an account that is going to get wiped out in a few minutes by a script and having to manually click this drop down, select a question, and type some nonsense in is a big waste of time.
I would love if they could add a "Skip" function for admins, even if it is a hidden one. It's trivial to reset a password on a Windows desktop anyway provided it's not using Bitlocker.
Hi Tom, this is a new feature in Windows 10, it enables the user to recover their password if they are logging in with a local account rather than a Microsoft Account
There always has been a problem recovering local account passwords in Windows, whereas with a Microsoft Account the user could just reset it on the Microsoft website.
As for being able to bypass that option, if the user will be logging in with a local account, you should just provide generic answers and then share those with the user . . .
Hi Guys, Tech here who also sets up loads of PC's for clients, best option is to skip entering a password (blank it out) and continue. They can be set later if a client wants, and most of the time we just re-image from there or start adding users and delete the dummy account.
But boy I'm sick of hearing Cortana's questions...
Will this eliminate those stupid mandatory questions?
