In the early days of Windows there wasn’t any password to speak of in order to login to it. You simply turned on the computer, Windows would load up and that was that.
It is possible to use Windows 7 in exactly the same way if you wish.
Notes before continuing: It’s not a good idea to use Windows without some type of password for login as it’s not as secure. If you elect to do this, it should only be done on a desktop computer that is physically wired to the network. On a laptop it’s a terrible idea because most people use wireless to connect to the Internet with them, and if your laptop was ever stolen, all of the data would be for the thief’s taking.
The way to use Windows 7 without a login password is as follows:
1. Click the Windows logo, then Control Panel.
2. Next to View by:, choose Category, then click User Accounts and Family Safety.
3. Under User Accounts, click Change your Windows password.
4. Under Make changes to your user account, click Remove your password.
You will then be able to login to Windows 7 with no password required.
Note that removing the password does not remove your Windows account. All the data in your account will stay where it is.
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Michel J. Gaudet
900 days ago
Hi Rich.
I rarely take advantage of nearly all you offer, but I will continue to be a PAYING member, and here is why; you seem to TRULY care about helping people! Simple!
A great example is the USING NO PASSWORD in W7. I myself would wonder about another not being able to think this through on their own; W7 is VERY user-friendly regarding just about anything you can think of to DO to it. But you, Rich, even try to help folks that can’t seem to put 2 and 2 together (me sometimes) with what most of us consider the EASY things.
I will be a PAYING member for quite a while to come. Every once-in-a-while, I actually do LEARN something new through the site, and that’s “A Good Thing” (this guy just LOVES Martha Stewart!… hee hee)
Thanks.
Michel
Elmer Blythe
844 days ago
Rich: I heartily endorse what Michael says in his first and last paragraphs! Martha Stewart I can do without.
I certainly appreciate your efforts and, like Michael, I do occasionally learn something. The fact that I don’t learn more is more because my usage of my computer is restricted to email and dealing with my hobby of photography than anything else.
Elmer
Rich Menga
844 days ago
You would have interest in the GIMP image editing software; I just did a video on that and there will be more coming.
Michel Gaudet
843 days ago
Hi all, and especially to our ‘Grand Poohbar Leader’… hee hee
This is regarding W7 Pro 64bit, but it might be applicable to others.
This is just for those folks who have a wireless network based on ‘mapped’ hard drives, and/or like to ‘map’ each and every system or drive or folder to one another throughout their ‘wireless’ home. For some reason I can not figure out, even through others ‘OUT THERE’ on the ‘net’ when I do a ‘google’ regarding this issue, I find that when I have my system set to just go straight through to the desktop, EVERY SINGLE TIME I receive the error message that some devices could not re-connect. So, I pop into MY COMPUTER and click on the THREE red-X’d drives plugged into my Dockstar, and also on the MAPPED drives/folders of what ever system is powered up in the home that I have mapped something from, and all is right with the world again. If I do not do that, and I launch one of the many music players I use (favorite is FLV as it just about plays EVERYTHING!), the tunes seem to not be available to be accessed from my ‘Media Drive’ where I store my little over 40,000 mp3 files.
The ONLY solution I have found that prevents this from happening (assuming all devices that should be THERE to be FOUND are turned on) is to go through the password thingie, which I simplify and speed-up by just making the ‘Ins’ and the ‘Del’ keys on the keypad my password. That way I only have to sort of ROLL my fingers from ‘Ins’ to ‘Del’ to the ‘Enter’ key… one fluid motion_ I am VERY lazy, you see.
So, for you folks with mapped drives on your wireless network, fear not the error message for device not found. Just go access them first in ‘My Computer’.
I am CONSTANTLY looking for a FIX for this issue, and it goes WAY BACK to when XP first came out; maybe before. It seems that Microsoft could care less about such trifling issues. All it would take is a way to DELAY a certain function, but ‘we’ can’t get to it.
Elmer, Martha Stewart is way cool for an ex convict… LMSBO!
Take care.
Rich Menga
843 days ago
What this sounds like is a combination of troubles with NetBIOS names over wi-fi and authentication into Windows 7.
Prior editions of Windows periodically would “forget” NetBIOS names (as in machine names) over a Windows network, but only over wireless. Repeated tries to a specific machine by name would sometimes force-reset the list of computers connected to the network and allow you to connect again. The solution to this problem is to connect to shares directly by IP instead of machine name. Instead of using Windows Explorer’s address bar as \\Machine-Name-Here, you use \\192.168.0.XXX where XXX is the the IP. This allows Windows to always find the IP of a specific machine on the network without having to translate a name to an IP, therefore it doesn’t have to “remember” it to access it.
Windows 7 by default shares using 128-bit encryption. This at times causes problems when connecting to other machines using prior editions of Windows. The fix for this is to click Start/Windows Logo, type “Advanced Sharing Settings”, launch Manage Advanced Sharing Settings, expand “Home or Work”, scroll down and tick the option “Enable file sharing for devices that use 40- or 56-bit encryption.”
The combination of these two fixes should resolve any issues you have connecting to shares on a Windows network over wireless.