message at startup, then requiring you to click/tap on OK and enter the correct password or other sign-in option. If you entered an incorrect password (not PIN) into netplwiz, you will get a The user name or password is incorrect. You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable automatically sign in to a specific account at startup.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable automatically sign in to a specific account at startup in Windows 11. By default at the startup of Windows 11, you need to dismiss the Lock screen, select the account you want to sign in to on the Sign-in screen, and sign in to the account using the selected sign-in option (ex: password, picture password, PIN (Windows Hello), facial recognition (Windows Hello), or fingerprint (Windows Hello).