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Shut Down, Sleep, Or Leave On Your Pc Overnight?
Which do you do? My PC (Widows 10) is on from first thing in the morning until late at night when I switch it off. But this morning something unusual happened which gave me a bad moment; instead of opening on my desk-top it stuck on the pretty picture and asked for my password and I haven't a clue what it is. I tried my usual ones and nothing worked, 'Change Password' needed a flash player and no way to install it from there.
I could see no was no of getting either access or closing down, so I simply disconnected the power and when I re-started it opened OK. It seems to change the password requires you to know the present one, so I'm thinking I shall leave it on overnight too.
An thoughts please?
I could see no was no of getting either access or closing down, so I simply disconnected the power and when I re-started it opened OK. It seems to change the password requires you to know the present one, so I'm thinking I shall leave it on overnight too.
An thoughts please?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If it was set up without a password in the first instance just pressing the "enter" key will launch it. If there has been an overnight upgrade it is possible that the desktop has done a full shut down as part of the process. If I were you I would, whilst you are up and running OK, go into your personal settings and put in a password. If it is nicked during a burglar, say, or switched on in your absence anyone can access your files.
I recently had to replace my hard drive and reinstall windows and the password option suddenly appeared. the password required is your microsoft account password ( if indeed you ever had one)
I kept the password option and use a pin to gain access, this is only to stop my young grandsons playing around.
A suggestion I found to disable the password was
Open Settings app by clicking its icon in Start menu or pressing Windows logo + I keyboard shortcut.
Click on Accounts.
Click Sign-in options in the left hand side, and then select Never for the “Require sign-in” option if you want to stop Windows 10 from asking for password after it wakes up from sleep.
The alternative seems to be to set up another user account without a password option.
I kept the password option and use a pin to gain access, this is only to stop my young grandsons playing around.
A suggestion I found to disable the password was
Open Settings app by clicking its icon in Start menu or pressing Windows logo + I keyboard shortcut.
Click on Accounts.
Click Sign-in options in the left hand side, and then select Never for the “Require sign-in” option if you want to stop Windows 10 from asking for password after it wakes up from sleep.
The alternative seems to be to set up another user account without a password option.
// My PC (Widows 10)// you may be on your own with that.
( widows see)
try to get back to the original window
control alt delete may do it
or close down and restart
doing a hard reset - pressing off until it goes off
the computer doesnt really like
and you may corrupt unbacked up files
I use sleep a lot
and restart about once a month
( widows see)
try to get back to the original window
control alt delete may do it
or close down and restart
doing a hard reset - pressing off until it goes off
the computer doesnt really like
and you may corrupt unbacked up files
I use sleep a lot
and restart about once a month
If you're sure that you've never set a password on your computer, simply leaving the field blank should be all that you need to do.
If you enter an incorrect password you should then see, below the password field, "show password hint". Clicking on that should provide you with the reminder that you set up when you created your password.
If you enter an incorrect password you should then see, below the password field, "show password hint". Clicking on that should provide you with the reminder that you set up when you created your password.
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