Cannot retrieve passwords

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 @BrigitteDoris last edited by

@brigittedoris Windows 11 can be installed as a local account, but that installation process will still ask for a username and password to be supplied. The user is allowed to leave the password field blank and it will be accepted by Windows (as requiring no user password for login). However, leaving it blank is not recommended since it can lead to odd "issues," since Windows uses the username and password to hash/encrypt certain 'personal/user' files that exist under the user account name.

How an application program later communicates Windows' username and password to Windows can cause issues when the actual password is simply a blank... in that case, Windows may read the application's 'blank' password response mechanism (if any) as being an incorrect or unsupplied password and reject access.

[BrigitteDoris]

BrigitteDoris @blackbird71 last edited by

@blackbird71 Makes sense!