Page 912 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

The usual computer book takes this opportunity to stress the importance of

a long, complex password. This is excellent advice if you create sensitive
documents and work in a big corporation.

But if you share the computer only with a spouse, or with nobody, you may
have nothing to hide. You may see the multiple-users feature more as a

convenience (keeping your settings and files separate) than a protector of
secrecy and security. In these situations, there’s no particular urgency to the
mission of thwarting the world’s hackers with a password.

That is, you may prefer to blow past the password screen, so you can get
right down to work. You may wish you could turn off the requirement to
sign in with a password.

No password required when waking

With one click or tap, you can eliminate the requirement for entering a
password when you wake the computer. (You still need it when you turn it
on or restart it.)

Open → → Accounts → “Sign-in options.” There, under “Require
sign-in,” you can change the usual setting (“When PC wakes up from

sleep”) to the much more convenient one: “Never.”

Now you won’t be asked for your password when you just wake the
machine after it’s gone to sleep.

No password required, ever

With a little more work, you can eliminate the requirement to enter your
password even when you’re restarting the machine:

1. Open the Run dialog box (press +R.) In the Run box, type
netplwiz. Hit OK.

You now find yourself in the little-seen User Accounts dialog box

(Figure 18-8, top). Most of the functions are the same as what
you’d find in the Settings panel for accounts—it’s just that you