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I’m building a new desktop computer for my wife, with Win10 2004. I’m unable to find the setting to enable automatic logon (without entering the password) – it’s not in the usual place.
?Is this because I’m using:
a.) a local account (M9crosoft account not yet set up) or
b.) a not-yet-activated installation of Win10??
Thanx,
Zig
To regain the missing “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer” checkbox in later versions of Windows 10 without having to manually change ‘Registry’ settings, a simple and safe way is download Winaero Tweaker and use the Enable User Auto Login Checkbox option. Winareo will change the necessary settings for you.
Earlier versions of Winaero Tweaker don’t have this feature.
https://winaero.com/winaero-tweaker/
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Using a brand new, never used or updated, out of the box W10 Pro 64-Bit 2004 version (from an ISO).
A password was used to set up the machine and is asked for on Start/Reboot.
All Windows Hello options are disabled and don’t come into the equation.
It is not a Microsoft account and the “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer” check box is not there.
Using a W10 Pro 64-Bit 2H20 (what I’m using now) is exactly the same – no “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer” check box is available.
A password was initially used to set up the machine when it was an earlier W10 version and I chose to remove this via “Netplwiz”.
It would seem these options were removed in subsequent upgrades/updates or by other factors.
This machine also doesn’t use a Microsoft account and all Windows Hello options come into the equation.
I can however add the missing option either manually or by third party program as seen above.
I don’t actually need to backup the Registry and try the fix.
I have sorted the issue by using Winaero, as shown above.
The Registry has been changed, successfully, for me.
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