Windows 11 - Can I boot straight to the desktop without having to enter my PIN number?

I now have Windows 11 Pro v22H2 pre-installed on my new PC and I really like the new look. It also feels really snappy and responsive running from my first NVMe M.2 boot drive!

One annoyance though is that when I turn my PC on, it does not boot straight into Windows but instead stays on the sign in screen where I have to enter my pin number to complete the boot up process.

Is there a setting I can change so that I can boot straight to the desktop? I am the only user of my PC.

Thanks.

 

Remove MS account and setup a local one. Then you do not need a password at all and Windoes should autologin.

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ndows-11/c0e9301e-392e-445a-a5cb-f44d00289715

 

If its asking for your PIN number, cancel your credit card and nuke/re-install windows!

 

uhm, wut?

 

A bit of fun

 

a /s helps avoid the confusion

 

lol

 

Does that work still? I vaguely recall some version of 10 or 11 where that checkbox wasn't visible or maybe didn't work, and I used this instead https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon

 

I assumed it just works. But since I use W10 20H2, I might be wrong and it only works here

 

This works for local / AD user accounts with passwords:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/t...er-profiles-and-logon/turn-on-automatic-logon

I use this where necessary.

 

If I was using 10 back then I think it would have been 21H2. I'm on 11 now and there's no checkbox:

Spoiler

 

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Passwordless\Device]
"DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion"=dword:00000000

Maybe a reboot is needed afterwards. Checkbox is hidden since 20H1 I think.

 

Open the run dialogue and enter "control userpasswords2" enter your login details there and check the box.

Ideally this is done with a local account rather than Microsoft account (if you created your local account with a Microsoft account online, you have to use the 5 character user account that is associated with your Microsoft account that was automatically created and it can be a bit messy).

I can't say if this works on clean windows 11 as my installation is an upgrade over Win10

 

MS removed that with 20H2 I think. At least on 22H2 the checkbox isn't there anymore as it's been removed in an older release.

Source: superuser.com