{"id":12319,"date":"2017-02-05T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2020-10-22T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:18:43","slug":"an-easy-way-to-bypass-lock-and-log-in-screens-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/an-easy-way-to-bypass-lock-and-log-in-screens-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Way to Bypass Lock and Log in Screens in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style790\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>An Easy Way to Bypass Lock and Log in Screens in Windows 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Windows 10 offers several ways of protecting your data. You can use a password or PIN. Or you can use a picture password, or biometrics if your computer is so equipped (many are not).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Caution: We don&#8217;t recommend that you bypass your password or PIN login unless you are the only user of your computer and your computer never leaves your house.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We featured a similar tip a while back, however, we are often asked how to disable the lock and login screen in Windows 10. There are other ways to do this by editing the registry, however, nothing we&#8217;ve found is easier for users to do than this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s a super-easy way to bypass the lock and login screen in Windows 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can disable the lock screen and sign-in screen so when you start or reboot your computer you&#8217;ll go straight to your desktop or start screen, saving you the hassle of signing in and thus saving you a few seconds. You can use Autologon tool to skip the lock screen and the sign-in screen whether you use a Microsoft account to sign in to Windows 10 or use a local account to sign in to Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">So, if you\u2019re looking for an easy way to make Windows 10 automatically skip the lock and login screen and boot directly to the desktop, the first thing you&#8217;ll need to do is download a tiny utility from Microsoft TechNet called &#8220;Autologon&#8221;. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/autologon.aspx\"> You can download it from here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Step 1: The Autologon tool comes as a zip file, so you&#8217;ll need to unzip it first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Step 2: Click on Autologon.exe to run the Autologon tool. If you see a UAC prompt, click Yes. Then accept the Autologin license agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Step 3: The Autologon tool automatically completes the username and domain field by gathering this information from the registry. So all you need to do is type your Windows password.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/disable-login2.png\" width=\"456\" height=\"230\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Step 4: Once you&#8217;ve typed your Windows password (double-check to make sure it&#8217;s correct!), click &#8220;Enable&#8221; and you won&#8217;t see a lock screen or sign in screen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s all there is to it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you hold down the shift key before the system performs an autologon, the autologon will be disabled for that logon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you ever decide you want to go back to using the lock screen and sign in to Windows again, you can run the Autologin tool again and click &#8220;Disable&#8221;<span class=\"auto-style737\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style7\"><span class=\"auto-style747\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/disable-login2a.png\" width=\"456\" height=\"230\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Remember&#8230; we recommend that you use a password or PIN to log in to Windows every time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; An Easy Way to Bypass Lock and Log in Screens in Windows 10 Windows 10 offers several ways of protecting your data. You can use a password or PIN. Or you can use a picture password, or biometrics if your computer is so equipped (many are not). Caution: We don&#8217;t recommend that you bypass your password\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/an-easy-way-to-bypass-lock-and-log-in-screens-in-windows-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20204,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions\/20204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}