I tried to remove the Windows 7 login password for an elderly neighbor on her Windows 7 Acer Aspire V5 laptop. Her login was a simple 6 digit number, but she didn't want to hinder her logging on, so I said I could remove it. I went to a cmd prompt and typed netplwiz. Apparently, I did something wrong. When I restarted now it asks for both username and password. Please help.
Len
I selected her name and removed and removed her name
Uh oh. Remove will delete the account like in Option 4 below.
User Account - Delete
You may need to create a new account for her.
I was able to get into startup repair, ran it, restarted and it came back to a normal start screen asking only for the password (not to include a username). I typed in her original password and it opened. How do I easily and safely remove her login password? Thanks for your help.
Len.
Great news.
You can use the steps in Option 1 below to setup netplwiz to have Windows automatically log in to her account at startup.
Log On Automatically at Startup
Thank you for all of your help. Don't know what I'd do without Windows Forums.
Len
San Diego, CA
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