How to Turn off Windows 10 password / pin

Question

The "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" option is unchecked in netplwiz, "Require sign-in" option in settings is set to "Never", but I'm still asked to enter my PIN everytime. I live alone and don't need any safety measures. There was a 5 year old topic with exact same problem here, which is locked now, but it was NEVER solved. For me, this problem persists for ~half a year***.***

Answer 1

Hi and thanks for reaching out. My name is Glen. I'm happy to assist you.

I would suggest to follow these steps.

First, go to settings simply press windows key + I.

• Click account.
• Click Sign-in Option
• Under Sign-in Options, Click "Windows Hello Pin"
• Click Remove.
• Click Remove again.
• And Windows Security Pop-up and asking for your Microsoft password.
• And Click Ok.
• After that restart your computer to apply changes.

But this time Windows login will asking for your Microsoft account password. And to remove that, follow these step.

• Press Windows Key + R
• Type netplwiz
• Then uncheck Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer. Image
• Click OK.

Then just type in your username/password.

Restart.

Hope it will help.

Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

Thank you.

Answer 2

That's no use, after giving the bot a rather long series of "none of above", I waited for an hour, I think, for a live agent, but no luck.

Answer 3

It didn't work. I was asked for a password this morning. I think it's a bug, not just a tricky interface and me not getting it, nothing tricky about unchecking a box, which is still unchecked - I just looked. Also if you google it, many people are experiencing this problem, and it's going way back.

Answer 4

Will see. Before the PIN option was suggested after the last major update, it was the password that I needed to enter logging in, even though it was disabled by the method you wrote. However, it wasn't everyday that I was asked for the password - it seemed to be totally random. Sometimes I could go for a week without the password, sometimes I was asked for it a few days in a row. So it's too soon to tell whether it worked.

Answer 5

Hi VikteS,

Alright. I'll leave this question to my fellow experts. I'm pretty sure they have other ideas to resolve this for you.

Thank you and Keep Safe.