New Microsoft account created, now forced to login

I posted here about my difficulties with Yahoo mail accounts. It wss also my MIcrosoft account login.

Can't login to Yahoo

I decided to created a new MIcrosoft account. That was several days ago. I don't remember if I rebooted the system until yesterday, but when I did, it asked for the password. I've never had a password requirement before, and my settings reflect that fact, unless creating the account did so without my confirmation

I was able to login to Windows.

This verifies there should be no password requirement



But I'm still getting this





is there a way to undo this in the account or elsewhere? I'm not exactly sure they mean by "Passwordless" account

You set up a password when you created your MSAccount.
I can't make out from what you wrote whether you realise that or not.

If your references to "password requirement" just mean that you wanted to set things up so you log straight in without having to bother entering a password then it looks to me like you entered the wrong username or password when you set up NetPlWiz.
Go back to NetPlWiz, undo the setting, reboot, set NetPlWiz up again with the correct username & password.


All the best,
Denis

Try3 said:

You set up a password when you created your MSAccount.
I can't make out from what you wrote whether you realise that or not.

This is my timeline. For as yet unexplained reasons, I had, still have, a situation where I cannot login/access Yahoo on my PC although I can still do so with my mobile devices

Because I now can't rely on Yahoo for anything, I had to create a new Microsoft account, with a password, of course. A complicated, security conscious password.

I didn't expect the subsequent Windows password prompt. I had to get into windows to undo that, but to do so, I needed to reset the password temporarily to something simple, to avoid that tortuous exercise at "blind" password entry with that intricate password every time, until I got things straightened out.

Try3 said:

If your references to "password requirement" just mean that you wanted to set things up so you log straight in without having to bother entering a password then it looks to me like you entered the wrong username or password when you set up NetPlWiz.
Go back to NetPlWiz, undo the setting, reboot, set NetPlWiz up again with the correct username & password

I haven't altered NetPlWiz in any way. It now displays the current/new account name/email, just as it does here




I'm still not sure about the gist of this tutorial. I don't want Windows Hello, or a Pin, or a Password. I just want to go back to booting up straight to Windows.

Enable or Disable Passwordless Sign-in for Microsoft Accounts

Try3 said:

Go back to NetPlWiz, undo the setting, reboot, set NetPlWiz up again with the correct username & password

Just delete it? What will happen after I reboot

Go to NetPlWiz.
Set that checkbox.
Get out of NetPlWiz then restart the computer and log in manually.
Go to NetPlWiz.
Set it up to log you in automatically as explained in Sign in User Account Automatically - TenForumsTutorials


You will not need to use that other tutorial [Enable or Disable Passwordless Sign-in for Microsoft Accounts] because your earlier diagram showed that the NetPlWiz checkbox was already visible.
- That other tutorial is for people whose NetPlWiz has hidden the checkbox.
- I've had to use that other tutorial [Option 2, the .Reg file] at least once to get the NetPlWiz checkbox to appear.



Denis

Try3 said:

Go to NetPlWiz.
Set that checkbox.
Get out of NetPlWiz then restart the computer and log in manually.
Go to NetPlWiz.
Set it up to log you in automatically as explained in Sign in User Account Automatically - TenForumsTutorials

@denis
What a relief to get this done. Thanks once again!

repairpc956 said:

questionwhat caused whatever problem you had

It sounds like the OP created a new user account and wanted that to be the one signed in automatically but, it seemed, to me, the OP had made a mistake when setting a password in NetPlWiz yet did not originally recognise that from the symptoms.
Post #1 showed that there was only a single user account but the second to last diagram showed two apparent user accounts. This is a symptom of a mistake having been made in NetPlWiz.
The OP then cleared & re-did the NetPlWiz setup [post #6] and the problem was fixed.


All the best,
Denis

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