Auto Login issue

When I bought the laptop it came with Win 10 preinstalled. As far as I know I've never had a password for it. It did request me to set up a pin though. The issue that i have is that I want the laptop to boot up without asking for a login. I've followed quite a lot of tutorials on how to do this but none of them work. I end up with a second user screen under my name which asks for a password that I don't have. And then there's the old log in screen where I still have to enter my pin. Any ideas how I can work around this? I've searched on here for Log in but the things that came up don't seem to mention this particular problem
Win 10 Home version 1903

mmmreece said:

When I bought the laptop it came with Win 10 preinstalled. As far as I know I've never had a password for it. It did request me to set up a pin though. The issue that i have is that I want the laptop to boot up without asking for a login. I've followed quite a lot of tutorials on how to do this but none of them work. I end up with a second user screen under my name which asks for a password that I don't have. And then there's the old log in screen where I still have to enter my pin. Any ideas how I can work around this? I've searched on here for Log in but the things that came up don't seem to mention this particular problem
Win 10 Home version 1903

Hi mmmreece, welcome to Ten Forums.

Try this tutorial.

Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup

mmmreece said:

When I bought the laptop it came with Win 10 preinstalled. As far as I know I've never had a password for it. It did request me to set up a pin though. The issue that i have is that I want the laptop to boot up without asking for a login. I've followed quite a lot of tutorials on how to do this but none of them work. I end up with a second user screen under my name which asks for a password that I don't have. And then there's the old log in screen where I still have to enter my pin. Any ideas how I can work around this? I've searched on here for Log in but the things that came up don't seem to mention this particular problem
Win 10 Home version 1903

You should be able to simply go to Windows Settings -> Accounts -> Sign-in Options, choose which sign-in method you are using, select remove if it is a Windows Hello PIN.

If you used a password, select change and enter a blank field.

W10 Tweaker said:

Hi mmmreece, welcome to Ten Forums.

Try this tutorial.

Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup

I've tried this. Doesn't work for me

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PCPartsGuy said:

You should be able to simply go to Windows Settings -> Accounts -> Sign-in Options, choose which sign-in method you are using, select remove if it is a Windows Hello PIN.

If you used a password, select change and enter a blank field.

There's two things that happen when I try this. The first attempt started up without password or PIN but forced me to set up a PIN immediately. There was no option not to.
The second thing that happened on a different attempt was that it created another user login with my same name which I don't know the password to and again the PIN log in screen on a different user login with my name. I spent most of yesterday and all of this morning so far with this. Why do Microsoft make everything so stressful?

Are you using Windows as a "Local Account" (LA) or signed-in with a MS account?

If using a LA then Windows will prompt you to set up a PIN/password if the only account on the computer is yours and it is therefore an "Administrator" account. If you want the computer to boot up without asking for a PIN/PW then create another user account but make it a "Standard" user with no PW. The computer will then automatically open this account without asking for a PW when switched on. Is this what you are after? You can then always use this account and if you want to do anything that requires "Administrator" privilege you will just need to enter your "Administrator" account PIN/PW for those occasions.

Try3 said:

I use netplwiz without any difficulty in Version 1909. I have local user accounts.
Denis

Thanks Denis