Windows 7: Password required but set up for password not required?

Hi TD, welcome to 7F!

Try disabling "Validate Password" in "Identity Safe" There is also a setting for Passwords and Security.

See screenshots here: Disable "Validate Password" in Identity Safe - Norton Community

UserID, I am not ready to run the system checker at this point. Hopefully that will be a last resort. I did make a guest user and the settings work fine there. No password needed when coming out of screensaver.

Britton, I didn't see anything in msconfig. I will have my husband look at it. Maybe a new set of eyes will catch something. I did remove the password on boot up and it didn't ask for a password on screen wake up. I put the password back on for boot up only and made sure everything was set properly to not require a password on wake up. And again it wants the password when coming out of screensaver. So maybe we are narrowing it down.

I can't thank you all enough for helping me with this!

Anak, Thank you. Identity safe is for internet. That wouldn't affect the system settings?

Norton ID Safe may have an influence here. I don't use 360, just Internet Security and don't use the ID Safe since I found it to be intrusive. Try Anak's suggestion, you can return to the former configuration if that;s no help.

Running the SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker won't upset anything but may find something.

Have you setup passwords in Windows Vault? Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager

As Britton stated "Norton ID Safe may have an influence here", I don't use it either, but you need to look at any, and all programs that require a password.

I don't mean to start anything , but have your husband look at it, he may have installed something and forgot to tell you about it.

Husbands are so busy they can't remember everything . I know, I belong to that group myself.

You can use SFC/VERIFYONLY
That will let us know if something has barfed within the OS without making any changes to your system. However, this scan is less important given your findings with a new profile.

You are welcome...

...and thanks to all that joined the thread when my idea well ran dry :-)

UI, it was probably a typo, but that command should have a space between;
SFC and /verifyonly:
Your welcome UI it's heck when your well runs dry.

Thank you for pointing that out. I make lots of typos that spell check does not catch & I hope that I'll always be open to correction - especially when it can impact the results of a scan or test.

As far as I know, the space is optional. The same is true for IPCONFIG/ALL and a few other such commands/switches. I should probably try to use the space when posting online to avoid the appearance of an error - but I don't use a space when I actually use the SFC command or the IPCONFIG command on computers.



Let me know if omitting the space can cause issues.

I just tried it on my nieces notebook I'm repairing and you know it does work I stand corrected, but I have run into machines that wanted that space.

On my computer leaving out the space work in cmd prompt but is needed when using Power Shell. I have no idea why that is. I have never known of sfc /scannow ever hurting a system. It is Windows 7 checking and repairing it own files if it can.