One last thing: If you like having some security on your PC but hate passwords, we recently showed you how to log in to Windows using a PIN instead. (Keep in mind that if your PC is owned by an employer, your company’s administrator may enforce a password using Windows’ group policy editor, and this trick may not work or may be inaccessible to you.)
We checked this ourselves on a Lenovo PC recently and it definitely does work. In an earlier version of this story, a reader pointed out that this technique didn’t work with his Lenovo PC-though a Lenovo tech-support representative said it would. Once you do, just go back to Netplwiz and enter the password correctly. Windows will then show two accounts, both identical, that will require you to log in again. If you manage to type the incorrect password the same way, twice, you’ll see an error message when you reboot. Oddly, there’s no mechanism within Netplwiz to actually check the accuracy of the password as long as they match, Windows is happy. They’re both identical, but you’ll still have to log in with a PIN or (gulp!) password. If, for some reason, you enter the wrong password, upon rebooting you’ll probably see an error message, then this odd screen where you’ll have not one but two accounts to choose from.
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