Windows 10: Login Laptop without Password?

This morning friend called asking how to get into Windows 10 Laptop bought yesterday but forgot password. Login gave an option to Reset password, said put in flash drive, however they had no flash drive. I walked um through booting to safemode thinking maybe some way to an admin acct, but could not get past login screen. They bought it local, called the store, said bring it in they could fix problem. That saved me from grabbing a USB ISO, driving their location and doing a repair that saves files.

But curious what other options there are, came here looking, found some but a few questions at (?).

I found that one can prepare ahead of time by creating a password reset USB. Unless I missed something (?) that seems to be equal to just writing down the password and keeping it somewhere.

I see there's purchase apps that attempt to hack the password while others appear to only make the windows repair/save data process automated. If not too expensive and reliable the former could be handy.

I see where one can go through the login process at Microsoft's site to set a new password.
(?) Question: Is it possible to go back to a local login after doing this?

(?) Any other options I missed that can get past the login lock screen?

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Password issue

After going through the steps to make a new password, after a week or two, my login credentials are no longer valid. I'm forced to make a new password all over again. It seems to happen if I don't login in a certain period of time. Does our passwords expire???

 

No login password craziness

Brink, that was the missing step. What threw me off was in netplwiz, where it asks about password for my MS account, the user name was not the same as my MS account name. Once I entered the password (twice) I can now login without entering a password. In fact the name that was listed was not the MS account name, but a folder name. The folder is the one that shows when you click on C:\Users.
Thanks for the help.

 

How do you opt out of the W8.1 password login?

I just set up a laptop for a friend by DLing ALL the W8 updates, and then installing the 8.1 free update, but it makes you choose a password login. In searching I've found a way to turn that off by unchecking the password option in the user account settings, and it now bypasses it on restart and initial bootup, but it doesn't completely remove this annoying feature. Any time the clock/screensaver kicks in, it still asks for a password.

Does anyone know how to completely bypass the password login option for W8.1?