Use sign-in info to auto finish after Update or Restart in Windows 10

alternety · 07 Aug 2017

When MS says Use my sign-in info, are they taking about the local account the user has set up or the one MS keeps pushing that is a MS login.

Brink · 07 Aug 2017

Hello alternety, :)

It means that Windows will use the sign-in credentials of the current account (local or MSA) to automatically sign back in to that account after the PC restarts from a required restart for an update.

rseiler · 24 Oct 2017

Have you found that this works to prevent automatic application restarts, which as of 16251 (as you mention) is part of this? In testing with 16299.19 at least, it does not, at least here. Task Manager is a good test app.

I tried both methods.

Perhaps what they wrote back in the summer pertaining to 16251 no longer applies now, or perhaps it never worked, I'm not sure (speaking just of the application restarts part of this).

It's too bad that they don't have a separate control for it, since I like the idea of WU auto-finishing.

Brink · 24 Oct 2017

Hello rseiler, :)

Nope. This will not prevent automatic restarts from Windows Update.

This is only to turn on or off to automatically sign back in to your account after a restart to finish a Windows Update.

For what you're wanting, you might see if either of these below may help:

Schedule Restart Time for Windows Update in Windows 10 Windows Update Activation Tutorials
Turn On or Off Windows Update Restart Notifications in Windows 10 Windows Update Activation Tutorials

rseiler · 26 Oct 2017

Hi,

I wasn't speaking of that but the feature introduced a few months back which restarts certain (registered) applications automatically upon boot (if they were open before restart). Examples: Task Manager, Regedit, all of Office 2016.

A lot of people like this forced feature, but a lot of people don't. I'm halfway convinced that there's some tricky way of stopping it (aside from using shutdown /r), but it's not going to be easy to find.

The reason that I thought it related to the subject of your article is because MS basically said that it did, but that section of their blog post must have just been poorly written.

Brink · 26 Oct 2017

Yeah unfortunately, there's not a known way yet to turn off or disable this feature other than either closing all apps before shutting down, use Shift+Shutdown, or one of the commands.

rseiler · 16 Nov 2017

Tested 17040 Enterprise, and it appears that despite the absence of the setting in the UI--and without making the Registry change--applications that would start automatically before (e.g. Regedit) no longer do. So, at least for the application restart part of this feature, if not the main part, no changes are needed on Enterprise. Luckily.

Not sure about what people should do if they actually want the app restart feature. I suppose they could try creating OptOut and setting it to 0, even though it's supposed to be a default (UnderARSO doesn't exist in my case).

Bree · 11 Mar 2018

Starting with Windows 10 build 17040: Based on your feedback, the feature to restore applications that have registered for application restart after you reboot or shutdown (through power options available on the Start Menu and various other locations) has been set to only occur for users that have enabled “Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting my device after an update or restart” in the Privacy section under Sign-in Options Settings.

Presumably based on further feedback, this 'feature to restore applications that have registered for application restart' can now be turned off in this way starting with Windows 10 build 16299.214.

Brink · 19 Mar 2018

Tutorial has been updated to add Option Three and Option Four to set this with a group policy. :)

Use sign-in info to auto finish after Update or Restart in Windows 10

Use sign-in info to auto finish after Update or Restart in Windows 10

Turn On or Off Use sign-in info to auto finish setting up device after update or restart in Settings

Turn On or Off Use sign-in info to auto finish setting up device after update or restart in Registry Editor

Enable or Disable Use sign-in info to auto finish setting up device after update or restart in Local Group Policy Editor

Enable or Disable Use sign-in info to auto finish setting up device after update or restart using a REG file