Windows 10: Phantom local account

I'm trying to setup winows 10 media PC with just a local account an no password required during login
However, whenever the "no password" option is set on netplswiz two users with the same local account show up in the startup screen. You then need to select one to get in.

this was a problem back in windows 8.1 and doesnt' seem to have been resolved.

Solved Phantom shows up at startup


Is there now a workr around?

:)

 

Deleted account keeps reappearing

After deleting the account through two different methods suggested and it still reappeared when I started it back up, I finally decided to try logging into the account. I immediately got a message that there was suspicious activity from someone trying
to log into my phantom account. A few months ago when I set up security on my desktop I had the option to set up a phantom account to protect it. Is it possible that my laptop local account is the phantom account?

 

ESET wants me to open a Phantom Account. Is this safe and how will I delete this account?

Eset's Anti-Theft protection creates a Phantom Account (random-named user-account) to protect your real user accounts and help to recover your device if it ever is lost or stolen. Enabling the Phantom Account will provide a notification
about suspicious activity on your computer to be sent to your email anytime that someone logs in to this account. The phantom account is required to fully utilize all of the Anti-Theft features.

• Activate and configure Anti-Theft protection in ESET Mobile Security for Android
• Phantom account Issue

 

Hello Erick, *Smile

When you setup netplwiz to have Windows automatically sign in to the local account at startup, did you leave the password fields empty since the account doesn't have a password?

Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup

 

it should not give you a option with two accounts it should just log in i agree Brink
and on the netplwiz you have a letter ''s'' that's not suppose to be there ErickTreetops

 

OK so I think its resolved. Even with a local account my hotmail account still kept showing up on certain settings winows. Maybe I was still logged.

Any way created a new local account called Admin which was a member of the machines Administrator's group.

When viewed through the accounts window it did not have the same values. The first account was just a member of the Administrators group. But Admin belonged to the Administrators and Users group. I'm thinking the first profile was somehow corrupt.

I set up Admin as the account to login without a password and rebooted.

The PC booted straight into Admin as if the first local account never existed. Have yet to decide about removing the first local account now it all works

 

I'm glad to hear that it seems to be sorted.