User Account Password Removal?

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Currently my user accounts have no passwords. Is it possible to set a
password for temporary use and then later return to having no password? Long
term, I want to be able to turn the computer on and walk away; my concern is
that setting a password for a temporary period will mean that I will from
then on have to minimally hit Enter on a window with a blank as its password,
even if I delete the password I used for a while.
 
Tom461 said:
Currently my user accounts have no passwords. Is it possible to set
a password for temporary use and then later return to having no
password? Long term, I want to be able to turn the computer on and
walk away; my concern is that setting a password for a temporary
period will mean that I will from then on have to minimally hit
Enter on a window with a blank as its password, even if I delete
the password I used for a while.
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You already have a password - it's blank. All Windows XP users have
passwords - but those passwords *can be* blank.

So - to answer your question directly - yes - you can give yourself a
non-blank password and change back to a blank password as often as you
like - given your network administrator allows it.

You may have "automatic logon" now - but you can have that with *any*
password set. That is not 'having no password set' - that is just choosing
to bypass entering it in some way. Seems what you want to do is the
opposite of what I am about to show you - so just reverse engineer the
instructions appropriately...

Automatic Logons:
------
Microsoft method:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231
(Essentially the same... but different place:
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/13/ )


Microsoft Method 2:
TweakUI from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


control userpasswords2 method:
1) Go to the Start Menu and the Run box.
2) Type in the following:

control userpasswords2

now click OK
3) In the new Windows that appears select the account you wish to make the
primary logon.
Now uncheck the "Users must enter a username and password..." box.
4) Hit Apply and a dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the selected
users password.
Click OK when you are done...
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Hopefully that gets you where you are wanting to be.

It is a *good* thing in the user arena to:
1) Have strong passwords.
2) Have more than one administrator level account (with strong passwords).
 
Great answer. Thanks.

Shenan Stanley said:
You already have a password - it's blank. All Windows XP users have
passwords - but those passwords *can be* blank.

So - to answer your question directly - yes - you can give yourself a
non-blank password and change back to a blank password as often as you
like - given your network administrator allows it.

You may have "automatic logon" now - but you can have that with *any*
password set. That is not 'having no password set' - that is just choosing
to bypass entering it in some way. Seems what you want to do is the
opposite of what I am about to show you - so just reverse engineer the
instructions appropriately...

Automatic Logons:
------
Microsoft method:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231
(Essentially the same... but different place:
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/13/ )


Microsoft Method 2:
TweakUI from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


control userpasswords2 method:
1) Go to the Start Menu and the Run box.
2) Type in the following:

control userpasswords2

now click OK
3) In the new Windows that appears select the account you wish to make the
primary logon.
Now uncheck the "Users must enter a username and password..." box.
4) Hit Apply and a dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the selected
users password.
Click OK when you are done...
------

Hopefully that gets you where you are wanting to be.

It is a *good* thing in the user arena to:
1) Have strong passwords.
2) Have more than one administrator level account (with strong passwords).
Click to expand...
 
Computers do not operate according to the rules of logic. They operate
the way they were programmed.
 
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