Removing the first screen on Windows 10

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Before I had the update problem, when powered on my PC went straight to showing the Desktop with all my icons visible. Now, when powered on, the first screen that comes on is one of Microsoft's photos, not sure what the screen is called. Is there anyway I can get the start up procedure to be as it was before, go straight to the Desktop screen?

I've since found the screen is called the Lock Screen and I've tried different ways that are shown on Google but none of them seem to work. Any help or advice would be most welcome.
 
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FiestaRed said:
Thanks for the reply Stuart, really appreciated. It's not the password/login bit I need to remove, I'm OK with that, it's the Microsoft photos that appear before the actual Desktop gets shown on the screen.
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The Microsoft picture and logon screen are both the same thing.
If you have a password you enter it if you dont you press return.
The above method is what i used to bypass the screen you mention and i am in the "no password" camp.
 
stupar said:
The Microsoft picture and logon screen are both the same thing.
If you have a password you enter it if you dont you press return.
The above method is what i used to bypass the screen you mention and i am in the "no password" camp.
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Thanks Stuart.

At the minute, when I turn on my PC almost the first thing that comes up are the different photos from Microsoft, then after a few seconds my main Desktop comes up. I'm not asked for a password at all. Before the recent updates, when I turned my PC on it went straight to the Desktop screen without showing the Microsoft photos, again I was never asked for a password.
 
It could be that your computer is a bit slow to complete the autologin process.

Right-click on a blank bit of desktop and select personalise, then from the LHS menu, Lock screen. Turn Show lock screen picture on the background screen off.

Let me know if that fixed it.
 
ancient_mariner said:
It could be that your computer is a bit slow to complete the autologin process.

Right-click on a blank bit of desktop and select personalise, then from the LHS menu, Lock screen. Turn Show lock screen picture on the background screen off.

Let me know if that fixed it.
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Thanks for the reply Toni. When I do that the Microsoft photo goes off but only to be replaced by a blue screen. This shows until the Desktop comes on, only a few seconds.
 
stupar said:
This method worked for me, not sure if this is the method you have tried previously but it should work!

https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/skip-windows-10-login-screen/
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Thanks for that, logging all the time really bugged me and that worked for me, plus they give instruction for windows 8 which I still have on
another laptop, slower to boot up and a pain when you have to wait the sign in before leaving it to sort itself out
 
Having a windows account without a password really isn’t a good idea.

It’s one of those ‘conveniences’ like not having to unlock your door.:police:

I’m letting you know that it’s one of those behaviours that comes before the post starting ‘how do I get rid of the annoying virus/cryptolocker/annoying pop ups/can’t use my computer?

:banghead:
 
Phil V said:
Having a windows account without a password really isn’t a good idea.

It’s one of those ‘conveniences’ like not having to unlock your door.:police:

I’m letting you know that it’s one of those behaviours that comes before the post starting ‘how do I get rid of the annoying virus/cryptolocker/annoying pop ups/can’t use my computer?

:banghead:
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IIRC the computer doesn't require login when sat in front of it, but any kind of remote connection still requires a login in the usual way. It's not the same as not having an admin password.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the latest windows update, and this XPS now takes less than 10sec from hitting the on button to login screen - I can be at the desktop in around 25sec. Considering it's a 3 1/2 year old computer I'd say that's not bad at all.
 
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Thanks for the help Toni.
 
ancient_mariner said:
IIRC the computer doesn't require login when sat in front of it, but any kind of remote connection still requires a login in the usual way. It's not the same as not having an admin password.
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Er no...
If someone can get your IP (not as easy as it used to be now that most people have routers) and guess your user name (is your's "toni"?) then
net use \\<YourIP>\c$ /u:<yourUserName>
would give full access to the drive (windows), or
smbclient //YourIP/c$ -U <YourUserName>
from a Linux box
All without a password because you've not specified one.

Now I'll freely admit it, it's not as easy as it used to be under Win9x where you could almost guarantee no firewall, the drive being called cdrive and the fact that you didn't need to know any user names, but it's still possible

(ETA: This is vastly simplified and I have glossed over the protections that ought to stop this happening, but it is possible and I certain that if you looked long enough you would find machines on the net that this would work on).
 
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LC2 said:
Er no...
If someone can get your IP (not as easy as it used to be now that most people have routers) and guess your user name (is your's "toni"?) then
net use \\<YourIP>\c$ /u:<yourUserName>
would give full access to the drive (windows), or
smbclient //YourIP/c$ -U <YourUserName>
from a Linux box
All without a password because you've not specified one.

Now I'll freely admit it, it's not as easy as it used to be under Win9x where you could almost guarantee no firewall, the drive being called cdrive and the fact that you didn't need to know any user names, but it's still possible

(ETA: This is vastly simplified and I have glossed over the protections that ought to stop this happening, but it is possible and I certain that if you looked long enough you would find machines on the net that this would work on).
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IIRC setting up W10 required a password initially, which is still present in the system - all this does is not require a password at the time of login from the keyboard, surely?
 
LC2 said:
Er no...
If someone can get your IP (not as easy as it used to be now that most people have routers) and guess your user name (is your's "toni"?) then
net use \\<YourIP>\c$ /u:<yourUserName>
would give full access to the drive (windows), or
smbclient //YourIP/c$ -U <YourUserName>
from a Linux box
All without a password because you've not specified one.

Now I'll freely admit it, it's not as easy as it used to be under Win9x where you could almost guarantee no firewall, the drive being called cdrive and the fact that you didn't need to know any user names, but it's still possible

(ETA: This is vastly simplified and I have glossed over the protections that ought to stop this happening, but it is possible and I certain that if you looked long enough you would find machines on the net that this would work on).
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That's pretty much only going to work nowadays if you have the modem internal to the computer and you accept SMB/CIFS connections from the WAN. Why you would do either of those things is beyond me.

Nowadays the computer IP will be one from RFC1918, which is not routeable, and therefore useless.
 
onomatopoeia said:
That's pretty much only going to work nowadays if you have the modem internal to the computer and you accept SMB/CIFS connections from the WAN. Why you would do either of those things is beyond me.

Nowadays the computer IP will be one from RFC1918, which is not routeable, and therefore useless.
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Completely agree, but you're not telling me that there is no one out there with exactly that configuration, and with their AV off as they'd read something on a forum about turning it off while fixing an issue.
This would be exactly the sort of scenario where typing in a password would be too much effort, so that layer of protection would also have been removed (or even not set up originally).
I fully appreciate that is not what @FiestaRed was asking about and we're now way off topic.
 
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