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Barry asked how to remove the login from his new Windows 10 laptop. Recently Answer Line discussed getting rid of the Windows 10 password by tinkering with Windows’ power settings. Those tips to remove the password prompts certainly work as long as you’re not on a laptop, but I’m going to show you how to remove the password entirely so you’ll never need to enter it. Of course, this unsafe maneuver comes with all the typical disclaimers such as this isn’t secure and it will allow anyone to access your PC, so you’ve been warned. This is just for people whose PCs live at home, in an environment with little to zero strangers passing by, and no need for it to be under lock and key all the time. Also these instructions were carried out on my personal system, which runs Windows 10 Home. Netplwiz is a “hidden” tool used to control user accounts.  First, click the Windows 10 Start Menu and type Netplwiz. Select the program that appears with the same name. This window gi...

Aren’t you glad you have a backup? Without it, you would lose everything—instead of just the hardware. I’m going to assume here that you used Windows 7’s built-in backup system, because that’s the default and the one you want for recovering data. (An image backup is for recovering Windows itself, which you don’t want to do on a new PC.) I’ll also assume that your new PC runs Windows 10. So the real trick here is to restore a Windows 7 backup in Windows 10. Plug your backup drive into your new PC and make sure you can access its contents. Then, in the search field near the Start button, type backup and select Backup and Restore (Windows 7). Once the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) window comes up, click or tap Select another backup to restore files from. (Microsoft apparently doesn’t mind ending a sentence with a preposition.) If there’s more than one backup on the drive, select the appropriate one (probably the most recent). In the Restore Files (Advan...