The only account to ever exist is my local account. The OS was installed without a network connection to force the creation of a local account. I would guess MS eliminated auto sign in on local accounts on clean installs of 21H2 to force people to use a MS account?
Hi,
This works for me on 21H2, You need to disable Pin and Hello. It works only with local accounts, but at least the Password is encrypted
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...oads/autologon
Last edited by MaloK; 06 Jan 2022 at 09:38.
I got it working before the last comment so thanks for everyones contributions. I can now go straight through from desktop to laptop in one click no passwords. Not very good memory for these things but it hinged round getting rid of one user (which wasn't showing in user accounts) I think the instruction control passwords2 was involved and then disabling Cortana.
You can still use netplwiz to automatically sign in to local accounts.
As a test, use step 3 in the tutorial below to turn off Require Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts.
Enable or Disable Passwordless Sign-in for Microsoft Accounts
Afterwards, check in netplwiz to see if the check box is available.
Do note, your account must be an administrator account, and not a standard user.
Determine Account Type in Windows 10
I didn't have the checkbox for passwords and Windows Hello was already disabled. I wonder if the menu's behave differently on different versions of Windows? I have Windows 10 Pro. Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044.
Also, my PC was not part of an AD domain, and I was logged in with the local admin account, not a Microsoft account.
I figure that any of those could be factors.
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