Deleting need for a password

[alicebarney]

I have an HP Pavilion notebook.  It requires a password every time I open which I don't require.  I have been able to disable this process on other laptops but can't find how to do this.  Can anyone help?  Thanks!

[Photoray002]

Hello alicebarney,

Are you signing in with a Microsoft Account or a Local Account?

I am assuming you have a Microsoft Acct. You will need to change that to a Local Account in order to bypass the password sign in.

All Settings> Accounts> Your info.

Let me know if you need further help.

[alicebarney]

Hi, tried what you suggested.  I did find out that I'm already set up with a local account though.  Any further thoughts?

[Photoray002]

Is your account the Administrative Acount or a Standard Account?

You will need to be logged in as the Administrator and use an elevated command prompt to wipe the password.

Press the Windows key and X key simultaneously -or- right click the Start button.

Click on Command Prompt (Admin).

In the command prompt window, type (or copy/paste) this line of text and note: replace the word your user name with your actual user name.

net user "your user name" *

When it asks you to Type a password for the user: hit the Enter key only.

When it asks you to Retype the password: hit the Enter key only.

It will tell you the command completed successfully.

Type the word Exit and hit the Enter key to close out the window.

That should do it.

[alicebarney]

I followed your commands to the letter but it didn't  work.  I got a different message and it didn't ask me anything about passwords.  

This is what I got???

(c) 2816 microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved . 

C: \WINDOWS\system32>net user me* 

The syntax of this command is: 

NET USER 

[username [password I x] [options]] ['DOMAIN] 

username {password I s} / ADD [options] ['DOMAIN] 

username [/DELETE] [ 'DOMAIN] 

username [/TIMES: {times I ALL}] 

username [ 'ACTIVE: {YES I NO}] 

C: \WINDOWS\system32>net user 

The syntax of this command is: 

NET USER 

[username [password I x] [options]] ['DOMAIN] 

username {password I s} / ADD [options] ['DOMAIN] 

username [/DELETE] [ 'DOMAIN] 

username [/TIMES: {times I ALL}] 

username ['ACTIVE: 

{YES I NO}] 

Administrator: Command Prompt 

Microsoft windows [Version 18.8.14393] 

[Photoray002 · Accepted solution]

Look at the command line example I gave above in the picture. It must be typed exactly the way I show with quotes and spaces.

If your user name is me, you have to use the quotes around your name and put a space between "me" and *

Correct way

net user "me" *

Incorrect way

net user me*

IF not, you get the listed items shown in your error above.

[alicebarney]

Thank you so much.  I followed it more carefully this time and of course it worked!

[Photoray002]

Your very welcome.  🙂

[PF3]

Strange. I did it the right way and got that incorrect message.