Windows 10: Confused by user/windows accounts!

I am the only user on this Windows 10 laptop. No one else here wilI use it, my wife would be frightened to use it and she has her own anyway. I want to be able to login (or rather not to have to login) when Windows starts up. I did have this working until an update not sure which one though. Now I have to login with a password. I don't know if this is a Windows password or a user account password. I came across a screen that said mine was the only account and it was the Admin account and I couldn't change it as there was no other account setup.

I just want to switch on and get the the desktop without fiddly passwords! I was locked out the other day when something happened (don't know what) and I had to restore an image from 3 days previous and I could then get in again but even then I had to create a password to do so.

I do sometimes use a MS account if I buy an app from the Store but I don't want to have to use the MS login just to use my system.

I hate Windows sometimes.*Mad

Can some kind Guru please set me right?

:)

 

Confused about user accounts

I recently purchased a laptop for my son, and upgraded to Windows 10. I then wanted to add myself as a user to access things I can't with my Mac, eg Visual Studio. I used the Accounts section in Settings, and set up and registered with Microsoft. So far
so good.

On the start up screen, both accounts are visible, and can be signed into.

However

When I create a document, it saves with the file path C:/Users/'MySonsName', rather than mine.

Opening up the users folder shows the usual windows folders, a folder called matts which was the name he gave to the computer when he first turned it on, and the folder 'MySonsName'. There is no user folder for my work. If I open 'MySonsName' folder, I can
the shortcuts to pictures, videos etc, as well as my dropbox account.

Is it not possible to have two separate independent account in Windows 10 like previous versions of Windows?

 

Confused about user accounts

Hi Steve,

Thank you for posting your queries in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issues.

Please verify in which user account you have logged when you are saving the files?



If you logged in to his user account and still files are saved under your son's user account then either the account he has created for himself is a temporary profile or the User are corrupted for that account.



To confirm the same ask to create a new user account and check.

Refer the following link for help create a new account and login.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-10/create-a-local-user-account-in-windows-10



Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help

 

See this tutorial for help: Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup - Windows 10 Forums

 

Hi Kari, thanks for the link but I've been using that all the afternoon. Whatever I try makes no difference, I still need to enter a password, it's driving me crazy!