[dba-Tech] Windows sign in

[Rocky Smolin]

Having a laptop without that first line of defense would make me real
nervous.  As you say it's with you a lot when you're out and about.

Years ago I rebuilt the OS on a machine and didn't put a password on it.
It started up just the way you want - right to the desktop.  That may have
been W7 - so quite a while ago.

In the past I have used a three or four character sign in to make the login
fast. Maybe just reducing the number of keystrokes can get you where you
want to go?

r

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 2:09 PM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I close my laptop, I must sign in again when I reopen it, which is
> driving me nuts. I have dogs, and if I leave the top open, they will fiddle
> with it, so I close it. I might do this 20 times in a single day!
>
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> So, I'm thinking I might do away with sign in when the laptop is reopened
> if
> there's a setting for it. I don't want to do away with sign in when I boot,
> just when I reopen the running laptop.
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> There's no one in my home who's going to sign in and get anything
> confidential. I have no proprietary information stored either if they did.
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> The worse that would happen is someone might steal the computer and go
> shopping, but I usually don't save my credit card information at shopping
> sites. I go back in and remove them if not given the option at purchase
> time.
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> I bank online and they could easily get into my banking account, which is a
> concern.
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> My laptop is always with me, so if it were stolen, I would probably know
> about it quickly. It's the first thing I check each morning because I can
> see what time it.
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> The only time I turn it off is when I'm traveling with it, which is most
> weekends. I go back and forth between my house and my daughter's house to
> help care for my great grandbaby a couple of days a week.
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> It just seems that the opportunity for being stolen is limited.
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> Sorry for the ramble - not much annoys me, but this is beginning to.
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> Thoughts?
>
> Susan H
>
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