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Windows 10 Auto Login: Best and Easiest Ways to Enable It
Adjust your user settings to log in instantly to your PC
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Windows 10, like its predecessor, also comes with multiple options to sign in to the user accounts. However, what if you don’t want any security layers in between and want to auto-login in Windows 10?
This a minor feature, but it can come in handy if yourcomputer won’t let you type your passwordor if you simply don’t want to type it by hand.
This is fairly simple to set up and in this article, we walk you through the steps to enable auto login in Windows 10.
What is Windows auto login?
Windows auto login is a feature that lets you sign in to your PC without having to enter any login credentials. Let’s have an overview of the pros and cons of this feature:
How can I enable auto login in Windows 10?
1. Configure User Accounts settings
1. PressWindows Key + Rto open the Run dialog.
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In the Run dialog box, typenetplwizand clickOK.This will open theUser Accountswindow.
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Uncheck theUsers must enter a user name and password to use this computerbox.
4.ClickApply.
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When prompted to user credentials, enter the username and password to disable password-based login. You may have to enter the username and password twice.
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ClickOKto save and exit the window.
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On the next restart, you will be able to log in without entering a password for you account.
You can remove the necessity to input a password every time you open your PC by disabling the login credentials. This can be done from the User Accounts menu in Control Panel.
A few users reported that the checkbox from Step 3 is missing on their PC. If that’s the case, you can get it back by doing the following:
2. Edit the Registry Editor
Setting up auto login in Windows 10 is fairly simple. However, some users reported that theycan’t log into Windows 10at all, and we covered that issue in a separate guide.
We hope that our solutions helped you enable auto login on your PC. Let us know in the comments section below if you have any questions about this topic.
More about the topics:Windows 10 Guides
Tashreef Shareef
Tashreef Shareef is a software developer turned tech writer. He discovered his interest in technology after reading a tech magazine accidentally. Now he writes about everything tech from Windows to iOS and streaming services to IoT at WindowsReport.
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