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How to Launch Windows 11 without Password
Yarisyoyo That potentiality is NOTHING compared to having a home-bound geriatric person scream at you constantly because she cannot remember her 4 number pin. I'll take my chances with the passwordless login, if I can ever make it work on Windows 11, which is looking pretty doubtful right now. I hate Microsoft right now for making this so difficult. Can't they understand that there are legitimate use cases for making this easier?
- As a 53-year-old, who manages webhosting servers and designs websites, I also scream at that password requirement in Windows. I have never lost access to a personal asset through theft or hacking. I have lost access to multiple personal assets over passwords - and sometimes I think it has as much to do with the vendor as me. I manage over 900 passwords for various things, so it's not like I'm inept. I know from experience, these passwords are far more likely to steal from me than anyone who has access to my Windows laptop. After maybe 24 hours of work and research, I've managed to remove the password requirement from my new laptop except for when it wakes up from sleep mode. I'm just done. Windows already stole my last laptop by being bugging out on Windows updates and making a perfectly good laptop unusable. Let Microsoft steal a second laptop from me, and I'll just have to switch away from Microsoft for the first time in my life. This situation is infuriating and is the last straw in my Microsoft fandom.
Gary_Brazzell I really appreciate your reply. In my case, the computer in question is for someone with diminished capacities that is home-bound. She is never going to take her PC out of the home. And this poses no security risk since her PC has total physical security. She cannot use a 4-number pin even if it was written on the PC itself. And she has been using PCs for so long now (over 30 years) that she really cannot live without them now. Windows 11 has been really difficult to customize in a way that would be helpful to someone in that phase of life. I just wished MicroSoft was more sensitive to the fact that not every one of their users can easily adapt to new ways of doing things.
