Windows 10: Windows switched to Miscrosoft password for login, now login is impossible

This started when I purchased a new laptop and logged into my Microsoft account on that device to migrate settings and apps from my old laptop. I planned on using both computers with the same Microsoft account credentials..Ever since I did this, the OLD laptop now requires a Microsoft account password to login instead of the 4-digit PIN, even though I did not change the login settings on this computer.This was annoying, but what makes matters worse is it won't let me log in using that method. By the time the computer boots up it says the PIN has been tried too many times and I've run out of at

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login screens

is there anyway to stop windows going into the login screen wen i boot up and leave my pc for more then 10mins?i have no password set and im the only user!!

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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.

 

Website login

You could either use REALM authentication or just by a webpage form and a db which stores the users login credentials


When you use REALM you will have a protected directory on the server, with a login by a webpage you have to "password protect" your pages