Your Windows 10 PC gives you various choices to sign-in to your record when you boot-up your machine. Default Sign-in Option a large number of the clients don’t know about the extra sign in choices Windows 10 that they can use to gain admittance to their record on a Windows 10 PC. At the logon screen by default the last used sign in method is shown.
You might have many Default Sign-in Option to choose from:
– Pin
– Password
– Picture
– Microsoft account
– Face Recognition
– Fingerprint (Helo)
If you want to set a default logon method for your users, a reg tweak can do this for you:
It’s stored per user in the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\UserTile key
There are 2 parts to these keys, the Name part is the user’s SID – the Data part the actual selected option
getting a user’s SID can be done by using the following command in an elevated command prompt
wmic useraccount, get name, sid
To set the default logon type for an account, edit the corresponding key with:
- PIN: {D6886603-9D2F-4EB2-B667-1971041FA96B}
- Picture: {2135F72A-90B5-4ED3-A7F1-8BB705AC276A}
- Password: {60B78E88-EAD8-445C-9CFD-0B87F74EA6CD}
- Microsoft Account: {F8A0B131-5F68-486C-8040-7E8FC3C85BB6}
- Face Recognition: {8AF662BF-65A0-4D0A-A540-A338A999D36F}
- Fingerprint Logon: {BEC09223-B018-416D-A0AC-523971B639F5}
There are more types possible, if the one you want to set is not in this list, you can find it under the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\Credential Providers\ key.
