Setting up your computer to automatically log you in can save you the time and hassle of entering your password each time you start up. Here's how to automatically login for Windows and Mac users.

Vista Hands On #18: Log on automatically A reader asks how to automatically log on to a default user account without having to click an icon on the Welcome screen.

In Windows 10, you don’t have an option to not set a password—at least, not if you’re using a Microsoft account to log in, which you should be doing anyway to synchronize your settings ...

You can delay automatic logon by up to 11 million seconds or 128 days or 4 months by delaying Boot Menu Timeout to 11,059,200, in Windows 11/10.

From further testing, Windows version 1703 does not automatically log in the last user in the background, unless a user account has no password.