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Is my Windows user password protected, and what does it protect against?
You mentioned, Windows is not asking for password, is it during Windows Update or all the time?
The password protected device normally protects you against physical access like someone is planning to use your PC. In term of hacking over network, it is different story and if they find a way to access to your PC having password or without password won't be much difference but it also depends on the attack itself.
Windows is not asking for my local user password when:
Turn on PC
Restart
Windows asks for my user password when:
I log off / Windows key + L
Want to change my password in account settings
"n term of hacking over network, it is different story and if they find a way to access to your PC having password or without password won't be much difference but it also depends on the attack itself."
Wont it be like another layer of security?
Open start and search for cmd or Command prompt and open it and then type the following command:
control userpasswords2
and press enter and it should open User Accounts and in the Users tab you shall see an option Users must enter a username and password to use this computer and you have to check this box.
Regarding to the hacking issue, when you are using Windows and you already login as administrator, attackers could take over your system and use certain tools to capture your password or keep themselves login.
- The box is checked / enabled. Does that mean, that my Windows is password protected?
"Regarding to the hacking issue, when you are using Windows and you already login as administrator, attackers could take over your system and use certain tools to capture your password or keep themselves login."
So if someone on the same network, would try to hack / get access to my system, would they have to enter my Windows user password?
And what about over the internet?Try uncheck it and restart your PC and then login and recheck it and see if the problem persist?
Try open Settings and navigate to Accounts->Sign-in options and you should see an option called Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device after an update or restart and try to turn it off and see if the problem persist?
They are different ways to do it by normally they could do it without entering password or bypass it. Blocking hackers over network is not using password but it is the Firewall , Anti-Malware and other Windows protection features.