Enter The Password For This Account Windows 10

[Vin Raichur]

IssueSometimes on my Windows 11 PC, especially after a reboot, when I open the 1Password app and enter my account password, it rejects my password as being incorrect with the message: You need to enter your account password before you can use Windows Hello.

Hi @WilburPost! It sounds as if you may have the Unlock using Windows Hello setting enabled in the 1Password 8 desktop app. This setting allows you to unlock the 1Password app and extensions using your Windows Hello credentials, such as face, fingerprint or PIN code.

The larger concern is that Windows 11 is so problematic that I'm reluctant to set up a Windows Hello account because I'm afraid it will just be another avenue for Microsoft to mess things up. Thanks again for your response.

When you say that you've already contacted support about this, was this via email? If so, could you let me know your support ID number here so I can connect the dots? It should look something like #ABC-12345-678. Thanks!

@WilburPost Windows Hello is a function that provides biometrics authentication in general, and a PIN is the most simple one, available everywhere, even without hardware. It's meant to be a more simple password than your real Windows account password for daily use, for just login and unlocking. The scope of the PIN is also local only, never synced with some cloud (in case you use a Microsoft account to login).

For example, I use a Microsoft account and I have a very long very cryptic generated Windows password. It's unpleasant to enter. But my PC is stationary and my home is secure, so I established a short Hello PIN of 6 digits, and whenever I log in to Windows or unlock the desktop, I only need to enter that pin.

1Password is able to use this convenience and use an established Hello PIN as well. You can avoid entering some long 1Password account password all the time - instead, you use the short Hello pin. If you also activate TPM usage in 1Password, you can extend the time between being asked for the full account password even more.

It helps with convenience (more easy to enter) and increases security (you can choose a more complex account password, because you need to enter it much less).

@Tertius3 thank you for your explanation. I get what Windows Hello does, but again, I've found Windows 11 so buggy that I don't trust Microsoft to add another security layer to an already unreliable operating system (I'm jaded). Obviously, something is already amiss when 1Password occasionally thinks I have Windows Hello enabled when I don't.

@WilburPost If you don't trust Microsoft with Windows if it comes to security, you should probably not be using Windows. How can you use an operating system whose creator you don't trust with security? The creator could do anything! This would get me the creeps.

On the other hand, it may be it's not trust in security you're lacking in Windows but perhaps in understanding how Windows operates. It may be Windows does things you don't understand, and you fear you break something if you use a feature. In this case, you can perhaps seek for courses to get a deeper understanding of Windows. Not just a course for switching on the PC, copying and deleting files, and start apps, but really more about configuring and administering a PC. Get a deeper view on how the several modules of Windows work.

My whole view on Windows changed, once I got Microsoft certification courses for administering workstations and servers, and designing corporate setups - called "Microsoft certified system engineer" at the time. These courses, at the time for Windows 2000, made it totally clear every single item in Windows has a purpose and not a single item is acting randomly. It's deterministic everywhere. If something doesn't work as expected, you can always find an explanation. And a fix, if Windows is designed to work that other way. Always. No, this is no joke. I mean this seriously. Of course, such certification courses are over the top for just a PC user, however there also exist lower level courses for ordinary users to get them better into PC understanding.

I have a home pc that changed the password two week ago. Unfortunately, I forgot to save the password like I did in the past. Now, I can't login the PC and unable to get to the Windows 11 desktop. Is there any way to remove password from Windows 11 without losing data? I tried Ophcrack password recovery tool but it does not work on a Windows 11 PC.

[Update on July 2024] In fact, I have successfully remove and reset the password and forgot to update in here. I received a lot of messages asking me for the same issue when I logged in my Outlook account.

@Symonds1905 So, I, for one, worried about the constant, although "unsuccessful" login attempts from Asia, Middle East, etc., decided, under Microsoft's advice, to get rid of my Windows password and use Microsoft's Authenticator on my phone instead. For a while it worked fine, the hundreds of malicious login attempts disappeared! Yet, starting this week, once again my Microsoft Authenticator keeps sending me login authorization requests, again from malicious players trying to access my Windows account. I have checked for viruses using a number of well known, and well rated, antivirus programs and all report neither bugs nor rootkits. I have ran a number of off-line virus checks with the same results. Is it that Windows Security is, once again, failing?

I have followed your instruction selecting windows key plus x) to bring up the tabs and selected Computer Management pop up. After spending several minutes exploring this pop up to my dismay, there is no "User" to right click on.

As usual this is horrible advice. None of this is applicable to my computer. There is no "USERS". I NEVER asked to use a password and I NEVER. EVER gave microsoft permission to FORCE me to use a password. Microsoft did this to my computer during an update. They infected my computer. I'm at my God damned house. I don't want a password for MY OWN COMPUTER that I BOUGHT. I just want to go up to my own computer in my own home and use it. I don't want to use a password. I can actually trust my family. The owner of this company has a lot to hide on his computer and needs a password, but my family isn't like that. We're decent people and we don't want to HAVE to use a password

After updating to windows 10 it still asks for the user name and password. Even if I add Guest and Everyone with full controll in the permissions. I am sure I need to enable the Guest account before I can add guest account. For checking I went to user accounts but did not see Guest account but I accessed accounts using cmpmgmt.msc and checked the Guest account there which is enabled (because disable account was unchecked)

Also make sure that the file permissions of the files and folders being shared also allow access to Everyone. File permissions are managed separately from share permissions and whichever is more restrictive wins.

In versions of windows before Vista, file sharing was unpassworded by default. If you shared files everyone on the same network as your computer could access (and alter) files in the share as they saw fit. Starting in Vista, in addition to a number of other security improvements for sharing, MS made it so sharing without a password was unavailable by default. This is the setting that reverts to the old behavior. Obviously, it shouldn't be turned off without also taking other steps to secure the shared files in shared network environments. Sharing with Everyone in such cases would be unwise.

On the network machine whose shared drive or folder or file you are trying to access, set up a LOCAL user account and password for the machine that is doing the accessing. It's counter-intuitive for another machine to use a "local" setting for a different machine, but it works, It's that simple -- why can't Microsoft just document that and tell us?!! There is so much frustration about this all across the WWW.

Right Click that folder which you want to share and then go to select share with then click For specific people and then add guest and then add it and change the read to read/write . that's all go to their folder by giving IP that's all .. nothing changed in folder sharing in windows 10 OS .

There could be many reasons why, but one which keeps hunting me is that Windows automatically tries to log into shared folders using currently sign-in user. If this fails it will not try "fall-back" to Guest.

In my case, my NAS has a user 'papo', but on my PC, I am sign in as papo as well. But I use different passwords for everything (with a formula).

The result is, I can't sign-in to NAS as a Guest without a password from my PC.

I think I'm going crazy! My Outlook keeps popping up asking me to add my IMAP password (which I have no idea what it is), and my emails are not updating. I haven't changed anything to my knowledge and this is happening on both my phone and laptop. I keep being sent to Microsoft 365 to update the password which I have done and then realised I have another Outlook in Microsoft from years ago which I do not use. I need to find the IMAP password for the Outlook I do want to use as it's my business email but Outlook don't seem to have any contact details. Does anyone have any experience with this before I go mad? Really appreciate if anyone has any ideas at all? Many thanks

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@RebeccaS50, first, check your email provider's requirements. Some providers, like Google and Microsoft, necessitate the use of app passwords instead of regular ones for email clients like Outlook. Visit your provider's website for instructions on obtaining an app password.

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