My father just passed away. His laptop is on now but I'm afraid to turn it off because I don't now if he uses a password to turn it back on (log into Windows). It's an HP with Windows 10. How do I tell if he used a password?
Open Settings/Accounts/Sign-in Options. If it looks like this, there's password attached to the User under 'Your info'.
Welcome to TenForums under such sad circumstances,
You should also look at Settings > Accounts > Your info
This will show if the sign in is a Microsoft account or a Local account. A local account will look like this....
How to Tell if Local Account or Microsoft Account in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials
If you are in any doubt at all then use the existing account to create an additional password-protected Admin-level local account. That will ensure that you can get back into the computer with access to all its existing files if you do end up restarting the computer.
There's a useful tutorial at
Account - Add in Windows 10
Creating a spare password-protected Admin-level local account is always a useful precaution to take even in the absence of any problems or confusion about existing accounts.
Do write the new account's password down somewhere secure - there is no need to consider the facility that local accounts have to create a 'Password reset disk' because that is just a glorified alternative to a piece of paper.
Denis
Don't forget to make it an administrator, a new account is created as a standard user initially.
Change Account Type in Windows 10
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