{"id":20191,"date":"2020-10-19T10:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=20191"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:47:45","slug":"what-to-do-if-you-dont-want-to-use-a-password-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/what-to-do-if-you-dont-want-to-use-a-password-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do if You Don&#8217;t Want to Use a Password on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>What to Do if You Don&#8217;t Want to Use a Password on Windows 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We highly recommend that you always use a password on Windows 10. If you don&#8217;t want to use a password, then we recommend that you use a PIN. But we weren&#8217;t born yesterday, and we know many of you don&#8217;t want to use a password or a PIN. And we know that many of you want to know how to use Windows without a password or a PIN and if you&#8217;re tenacious enough you&#8217;ll find the instructions somewhere. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But before we show you how to disable your password, we&#8217;re going to remind you that <em><strong>not using a PIN or password is a security risk &#8211; even if you&#8217;re the only one using your computer. <\/strong><\/em>So, please keep that in mind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But if you still want to disable your password, here&#8217;s how you can do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type <strong>NETPLWIZ<\/strong> in the taskbar search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Press Enter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When netplwiz shows in the search results, click &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/nopass0.png\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A window will open&#8230;If you have more than one account on your computer, choose the account you want to change. Then uncheck the box next to \u201cUsers must enter a user name and password to use this computer.\u201d Then click &#8220;Apply&#8221; &#8220;OK&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/nopass4me.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" width=\"453\" height=\"503\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A window will pop up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/nopass01.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" width=\"412\" height=\"287\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Enter your password twice in the pop-up window and click &#8220;OK&#8221; then click &#8220;OK&#8221; again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s it. Keep in mind that the changes will not take effect until after you restart your computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you ever want to go back to using a password, type NETPLWIZ in the taskbar search and check the box next to \u201cUsers must enter a user name and password to use this computer.\u201d Then click &#8220;Apply\/OK&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What to Do if You Don&#8217;t Want to Use a Password on Windows 10 We highly recommend that you always use a password on Windows 10. If you don&#8217;t want to use a password, then we recommend that you use a PIN. But we weren&#8217;t born yesterday, and we know many of you don&#8217;t want to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/what-to-do-if-you-dont-want-to-use-a-password-on-windows-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2942,1656,3948],"tags":[155,4072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191"}],"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=20191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20198,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191\/revisions\/20198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}