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I am using Windows 10 Pro x64 on my personal laptop on which I have a single user account with no password. For some reason however, Windows 10 has started asking me to enter a password whenever I boot up my machine. All I have to do is press the button without entering anything, and I log in, but I would much rather skip this step in favor of an automatic sign-in. Why has this started happening only now? What can I do to stop this behavior?

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Here is how to stop the computer from asking for a password every time:

  1. Right-click the Windows Logo (Start Button) and click "Run"
  2. Type netplwiz and click "OK"
  3. Uncheck "Users must enter a username and password to use this computer."
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  • Thanks! Idea why this was a problem?
    – DaveTheMinion
    Jul 30, 2015 at 2:53
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    @DavidB The default is to ask for a password. That's all there is to it. Previous versions of Windows would just automatically "uncheck" the checkbox when there was only one user account and it had no password, but Windows 10 wants to show you the lockscreen, either for security (so other people think you have a password) or for usability (because you can have status icons show up there for various apps).
    – Moshe Katz
    Jul 30, 2015 at 2:55
  • The strange thing is that I have been running Windows 10 on my machine for several days now and this only started happening today.
    – DaveTheMinion
    Jul 30, 2015 at 3:00
  • Windows update recently? (Maybe one of the updates triggers that)
    – Darius
    Jul 30, 2015 at 3:02
  • wow, so intuitive Microsoft, netplwiz.
    – dan carter
    Mar 16, 2017 at 5:34
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Moshe Katz requested that I repost my above comment as a separate answer.

As of 2023, the only method I found that works to automatically log in to Windows 10 is the following:

Use regedit to create and/or edit the following registry keys in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon:

Create and or edit the following keys:

  • Set DefaultUserName to the user name.
  • Set DefaultPassword to the user's password.
  • Set AutoAdminLogon to the string 1.

Source:
https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-set-up-windows-10-to-login-automatically/

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