Windows 10: how do i remove password log in from win10 lockscreen? or auto login?

so i have a desktop with windows 10 and was able to bypass(or auto log in?) password easily but i dont remember how i did it. same with my win10 laptop. now in this other laptop i recently installed windows and cannot figure out how to bypass password. in settings i dont have the "users must enter username and password" check box. and im currently the admin

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remove password

I suggest you start again

click start, type netplwiz and press enter

tick the box to require users to enter the password and click apply

(whilst there check in the list of users, if it shows an email address it is a microsoft account, if it shows a username it will be a local account)

check that you can log in to each account without issue.

on the account that you wish to use as the default (auto login) make sure you know the correct password then remove any windows hello (PIN, etc)

check that you are still able to log in without issue.

then set up the default login again following the guide posted earlier.

data limits will not affect the requirement to enter a password.

 

How to auto login windows 10 if i use Microsoft account?

I didn't solve this by your suggestion. However, i reinstalled windows10, and log in with Microsoft account from start. Then netplwiz works well.

I found a interesting phenomenon. After unchecking the box of netplwiz, and type a wrong password, netplwiz will also exit with no error. Does it mean netplwiz only sotres the password i input and use this for logging in?

I have two hypothesises about netplwiz.

1. auto login feature is a kernel feature, netplwiz just call this feature, the password you need to input after unchecking the box is just for authentication of current user.
2. auto login feature is provided at userspace by netplwiz. the password you need to input after unchecking the box is stored somewhere and netplwiz will use this password to log in windows

At first i think first one is correct, but now it seems that second is correct, am i right?

 

Turn off auto-login?

To stop the automatic log-in, please follow the
auto-login to windows steps listed here, except when you get to the point to automatically login, check the box instead. That'll turn it off.

If you want to remove the extra account, you can also do that using the same steps (just click the "remove" button).

And finally, if you want to go back to Windows 8.1, get the Windows 8.1 install files

here.

PS. You cannot ever delete the account with the actual name of "administrator" or you will ruin your computer.