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How To Automatically Login In Windows 10

Want to quickly boot to your Windows 10 desktop by skipping the login screen? Would you like to avoid typing your account password each time you turn on your PC? You can configure Windows 10 to automatically boot to the desktop or Start screen without requiring to enter the account password.

The core benefit of configuring Windows 10 to automatically sign-in is you don’t need to remember the password, which also means that you save a couple of seconds during the boot. This, in turn, means that Windows 10 boots to the Start screen or desktop a couple of seconds faster.

The procedure to set up automatic logon in Windows 10 is very similar to the one in Windows 7 and Windows 8. 

This method is applicable to both local user account and Microsoft account. In other words, whether you’re using a Microsoft account or local user account, you can use this guide to enable automatic logon.

You can follow one of the methods given below to turn on automatic login in Windows 10.

Method 1 Automatically logon without password:

This is the easiest way to automatically login to Windows 10 without entering the password.

Step 1: First step is to open Run command box by simultaneously pressing Windows logo and R keys (Windows+R). In the Run dialog box, type Netplwiz and then press Enter key.

Step 2: In the resulting User Accounts dialog, select your user account first and then uncheck the option labelled Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer. Click Apply button to see Automatically sign in box.

Step 3: In the Automatically sign in dialog, type your password and then re-enter the password to confirm the same.

Finally, click OK button.

Method 2 Turn on automatic sign-in using Registry:

If, for some reason, you’re not able to configure Windows 10 to automatically logon by following the above method, please use this method.

Step 1: Open Registry Editor. To do so, type Regedit in the Start menu search box or Run command box and then press Enter key. Click Yes button when you see the UAC (User Account Control) box.

Step 2: In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Step 3: On the right-side, look for the entry named DefaultUserName, double-click on it and make sure that your Microsoft account or local user account name is appearing under Value data box.

Step 4: Next, on the right-side again, look for the entry named DefaultPassword. If the entry doesn’t exist, please create one by right-clicking on the empty space, clicking New and then clicking String Value. Rename it to DefaultPassword and enter your password in the Value data box. Click OK button.

Step 5: Finally, you need to enable automatic logon. To do so, on the right-side (once again), look for the entry labelled AutoAdminLogon and then change its value from 0 (zero) to 1 (one).

That’s it! Restart your PC to see your Windows 10 automatically logging into your account without asking you to enter the password. Good luck!

Method 3 Use Autologon to automatically login in Windows 10:

There is a free software out there to help you automate the login process in Windows 10. Autologon is a free tool from Microsoft designed to help you skip the lock and login screen in Windows 10.

Step To Enable or Configure Auto Login for Windows 7 Domain or Workgroup

Setup Auto-Login for Windows 7 Workgroup PC

This is pretty straight-forward. Click on Start, then type the following into the command box and press Enter:

netplwiz

This will open the advanced user account properties dialog box. You can also get to this screen by typing run in the command box and then typing

control userpasswords2

in the run dialog box. Either way, you’ll get the same dialog box.

Go ahead and uncheck the box that says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.”

When you uncheck it and click OK, you will be prompted to enter your current password for the currently logged-in user account.

That’s it! Now restart your computer and you should be good to go. No more having to type in a password or having to click on one of those user icons. You’ll just be automatically logged into Windows 7.

Enable/Setup Auto-Login for Windows 7 Domain PC

If 

you are joined to a domain, you would follow the same steps, but you’ll quickly realize that the checkbox option is missing altogether! So how do you get it back? With a registry tweak.

Open the registry editor (Start, then type regedit) and go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon

As you can see, the value should be set to 1. If it’s 0, the checkbox will not appear. Go ahead and change the value to 1 and restart your computer. Now open the dialog box and you should see the checkbox.

However, it might be unchecked. So you have to check the box, click OK and then go back into the dialog box and then uncheck it again. At this point, it’ll ask you for your login credentials and you should be good to go.

Extra Tip: If the above method for auto-login for Windows 7 domain didn’t work, you can try to get the auto-login to work by tweaking three more values in the same registry location mentioned above.

If they don’t exist already, you can add these three keys shown below under Winlogon:

DefaultDomainName (String)

DefaultUserName (String)

DefaultPassword (String)

Set the keys to their appropriate values and restart your computer. This used to be the method to get a Windows XP computer joined to a domain to login automatically, but you can still use it for Windows 7!

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