{"id":3952,"date":"2016-08-31T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:53:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:53:51","slug":"disable-password-reveal-button-windows-10-login-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/disable-password-reveal-button-windows-10-login-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Password Reveal Button in Windows 10 Login Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The password reveal button in Windows 10 login screen is a useful option to verify if you&#8217;re typed the password correctly. However, if you want to disable it for more security, here is a registry edit.<\/p>\n<p>Start Regedit.exe and go to:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CredUI<\/pre>\n<p>Create a DWORD (32-bit) value named DisablePasswordReveal. Double-click DisablePasswordReveal and set its value data to 1<\/p>\n<p>This disables the password reveal button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The password reveal button in Windows 10 login screen is a useful option to verify if you&#8217;re typed the password correctly. However, if you want to disable it for more security, here is a registry edit. Start Regedit.exe and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CredUI Create a DWORD (32-bit) value named DisablePasswordReveal. Double-click DisablePasswordReveal and set its value &#8230; <a title=\"Disable Password Reveal Button in Windows 10 Login Screen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/disable-password-reveal-button-windows-10-login-screen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Disable Password Reveal Button in Windows 10 Login Screen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24393,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/auto-login-user-account-windows-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":3952,"position":0},"title":"How to Automatically Login to your Account in Windows 11 and Earlier","author":"Ramesh","date":"October 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Every version of Windows, from Windows 2000 to Windows 11, allows you to automatically log in to your user account without typing the password. 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