{"id":14871,"date":"2019-08-18T03:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=14871"},"modified":"2019-08-18T03:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T03:38:07","slug":"enable-or-disable-passwordless-login-for-microsoft-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/enable-or-disable-passwordless-login-for-microsoft-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable or Disable Passwordless Login for Microsoft Accounts in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passwords should be unique and complex, but then they&#8217;re hard to remember. Starting with Windows 10 build 18936, Microsoft brings passwordless sign-in experience so you can log in to Microsoft account with Windows Hello Face, Fingerprint, or PIN. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you 2 easy ways to enable or disable passwordless login for Microsoft account in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Enable or Disable Passwordless Login for Microsoft Account via Settings App<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hold down the <strong>Windows<\/strong> Key on your keyboard, then press the I key to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-pc-settings-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">open the Settings app<\/a>. Next, Click on <strong>Accounts<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/accounts-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13331\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>Sign-in options<\/strong> on the left side. On the right, click the toggle button right under &#8220;<strong>Make your device passwordless<\/strong>&#8221; to enable or disable passwordless login for Microsoft accounts on your device.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/make-your-device-passwordless.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"622\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14874\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve enabled the passwordless login feature, reboot your computer and you&#8217;ll have to complete the steps to set up Windows Hello Face, Fingerprint, or PIN at the login screen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Enable or Disable Passwordless Login for Microsoft Account via Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Open Registry Editor<\/a> and browse to the key: <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\PasswordLess\\Device<\/code>. Double-click the DWORD <strong>DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion<\/strong> on the right pane.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/windows-10-passwordless-signin-registry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14875\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the Edit DWORD Value window, enter 2 into the Value data if you want to enable the passwordless sign-in feature for Microsoft account. To disable the passwordless login, just set its value to 0.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14876\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close Registry Editor and restart your computer to apply the changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passwords should be unique and complex, but then they&#8217;re hard to remember. Starting with Windows 10 build 18936, Microsoft brings passwordless sign-in experience so you can log in to Microsoft account with Windows Hello Face, Fingerprint, or PIN. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you 2 easy ways to enable or disable passwordless login for Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4302,4301],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","tag-windows-10-passwordless-login","tag-windows-10-passwordless-sign-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14877,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions\/14877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}