I have found lots of ways to remove the PIN logging from the Windows 10 Windows Hello service but they all apply to a non work/school login account. My account is a work account and when I want to remove the PIN the remove button is greyed out. How can I re-enable that button so I can remove then pin then disable Windows Hello on this machine?
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I recently linked my Microsoft Office account to my school to have access to Office for students. Right after linking my account, I couldn't login to my computer again with my 4-digit pin code and got the message: "your organization has set the following pin code requirements. Your pincode has to be at least 6 digits long."   I had to change my pincode but I want to change it back to my original 4-digit one. Some internet research has made me enable gpedit.msc, but when I try to find the PIN complexity setting in gpedit (Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\PIN Complexity) it just isnt't there.   Another possible path in gpedit I found on the internet to do this was: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Hello for Business > PIN Complexity, but that also didn't work as I don't have "Windows Hello for Business"   I also tried resetting my computer to the date before I joined my 'organization', but that didn't work either.   Does anyone have an idea how I can resolve this issue?
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I recently setup a new computer for my parents with windows 10 home. I made two local accounts for them - no microsoft accounts. I also would like to keep them without a password. Problem is now that windows automatically signs in with the last used account. No lock/login screen.  I tried a number of answers from similar questions here but none worked. Since it's a home version there are no group policies and the method using task scheduler does not work because accounts with no password are not allowed to create such tasks.  Are there other options to force windows to show a user list on startup without setting passwords for the accounts?
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I don't normally use encrypted volumes on my Windows 10 Professional machine but needed to do so today.  I normally use the drive on another system that runs Windows 7 Enterprise.  I discovered this problem when I initially connected the drive and missed the Windows 10 toast notification to unlocked the drive.  On Windows 7 when you right-click on the drive, you get an option to "Unlock Drive..." which then displays a password prompt.  When I did this same action on my Windows 10 machine I got the following context menu:    When I attempted to Open the drive, I got the following error message:    This PC:    At this point, I disconnected the drive, connected the drive again, and unlocked the drive through the toast notification.  At this point, I want to know the reason I could not unlock the drive through Windows Explorer.  Why can I only unlock the drive through the toast notification?
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Using a brand new Surface Pro (first generation) out of the box, installed current updates, then 8.1, and any further recommended updates after 8.1 was installed.   I've installed a two other things that don't seem connected to the issue: the Cisco Anywhere VPN client and Visual Studio 2013.  I'd like to enable Bitlocker, but during the verification step, the following error is displayed, with no options to continue:     This PC deosn't support entering a BitLocker recovery password during startup. Ask your   administrator to configure Windows Recovery Environment so that you can use BitLocker.   The "administrator" in this case is me, and I don't:   ... understand why this has happened ... know how to fix the issue, as if it's really necessary to make this change, what would I do?
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In Windows 8.1 when you log in there's the prelogin screen that has an image you can change, but then there's also the login (password entry) screen that as far as I can see is just a solid color.  How could I replace that with an actual picture? (ie, if I wanted a company logo to be displayed in the large space underneath the password entry box.
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Windows 10 lets you 'schedule' a reboot for later. I want to disable it.  Evidently Windows scheduled itself for a reboot last night when I wasn't looking and just closed everything I had been working on the night before.  I reboot on the regular; I don't need Windows to do that for me.  Can I disable it completely? I don't mind if it downloads everything, and then says "hey, you should reboot," but it should never reboot itself, ever.  I'm using the "Pro" edition of Windows 10.
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I am using Windows 10 Pro x64 on my personal laptop on which I have a single user account with no password. For some reason however, Windows 10 has started asking me to enter a password whenever I boot up my machine. All I have to do is press the button without entering anything, and I log in, but I would much rather skip this step in favor of an automatic sign-in. Why has this started happening only now? What can I do to stop this behavior?
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I have a really long password for my Microsoft account, and I don't want to enter that every single time I log in, so I was wondering if I could have a second, smaller password for just the computer profile. I know you can do this with a PIN, or a picture password, but can I do it with a normal password?
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Is it possible to remove a user's password using the net command?  I tried "net user &lt;name&gt; *" and just hitting return twice, but this does not work as expected. Is there any other way to do this? (I'd gladly take non-net commands, as long as they are built-in in XP SP3).  Edit: Seems, I did not make my intention clear. I don't just want to change the password, but remove it completely (so that the user may log in without having to supply a password).  I'm familiar with the "net"-reference and have searched online for several hours, but could not find a hint on how to do this.
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I disabled all services in services using msconfig and restarted.  Now - my login details no longer work. I have no network access and the forgot my password option doesn't do anything.  I have restarted using shift+restart to try get into safe mode but this just brings me to the same logon page.  Does anybody know what caused this or how I can resolve the issue?
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I want to disable a Windows service but I don't want to:   Open the "Services" management console  Scroll to the name of the service Right-click Properties (or double-click) Change the Startup Type: to disabled Apply Click "Stop"   I don't want to  but instead, just disable it.
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I'm required to log my start and finish times at work. Occasionally I forget to do this and had a bright idea that checking the Security events log would allow me to retrospectively ascertain my times.   Unfortunately, the logs are much bigger than I thought and take a while even to display in Event Viewer. Also, I tried filtering the logs by date and userid but so far this has yielded no results.  Assuming my idea is feasible, can anyone step-through what I'd need to do to retrieve the information I need?  UPDATE:  I followed @surfasb 's instructions and got the to point where I can see only the logins, however some of these are System-level (i.e. non-human) logins. I would like to see only my 'physical' logins (there would only be two or three such events on weekdays) and not all the other stuff.  I've tried putting my Windows username in the field as shown below using both domain\username and just username but this just filters out everything. Can you assist?
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I don't want to reset the password nor delete it. I need to know the password. What can be done? Specific software for that? Easier way of getting the password from inside a non-admin account through Windows itself or reboot is needed? Thanks  EDIT: Also, where are the password files stored? If I get in the system files with another bootable OS, I can read those and get the pwd from it.   EDIT: I don't want to reinstall Windows, I want the password.
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Windows 10 introduced many new features which leak personal data to Microsoft, you can turn most of them off but it involves a lot of clicking and research because they are not all in one place.   A good list of these settings is at   I would like some sort of batch file that can change all these settings in one go.
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I am using Windows 7 and when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del I first go into the welcome screen and only then I can go into the task manager.  I have no use for any other option on this screen, can I change it so the combination will get my directly to the task manager ?
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Every time I start up the pc or lock it manually and I want to log in again, I have to press random button or mouse click to remove the "Start-screen background". After that I can enter my password/pin to unlock the pc.   What I want is to just start enter the password/pin right away and be done with it. Why show a start-screen that's made for removing anyway?  So how do I skip the lock-screen image? Or make it automatically move away? Or move the password/pin box to the lock-screen? Anything will do, I just want to instantly enter my credentials and be done with it.
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The Windows 10 April 2018 Update includes a new feature called Timeline which tacks the activities and allows you to see what you have done earlier, sends it to Microsoft servers, so that you can resume work on a 2nd device, which is connected to the same Microsoft account when you press the Tasks View button in the taskbar:    How can I disable the Timeline because I don't want that my activity gets tracked?