“The User Name or Password is incorrect. Try again” in Windows 10. How to fix
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Today we will talk about the error The User Name or Password is incorrect. Try again that happens quite often on Windows 10 at logon. The second confusing thing is when you click OK you see two identical user accounts (yes, with exact same names) on the welcome screen and you don’t know which one you need to select.
Therefore, in this article, a few words about the problem. and how to fix the error “The User Name or Password is incorrect. Try again”. Here is how the error looks like:
The User Name or Password is incorrect. Try again.
And this is what you see when you finally select one of the equal accounts and click OK:
The reason why the error “The User Name or Password is incorrect. Try again” emerges on Windows 10
The error happens because of a glitch in Windows 10. You will face it in case if you have set up the auto-logon (like we wrote here) and after that you changed the name of your computer:
How to fix “The User Name or Password is incorrect. Try again” error
Type your password (or login and password) to log in to ANY account of the two.
Press Win+R.
Type netplwiz (or control userpasswords2).
Hit Enter:
Turn on password request if it is turned off. Just check the flag Users must…and click Apply.
After that turn it OFF again:
That’s it! Unfortunately you will have to follow these steps each time after you decide to change your computer’s name while the auto-logon feature is enabled.
Adam Swift
Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp