What is a Picture Password and How to Set It Up in Windows 10

Source: www.wpxbox.com --- Thursday, June 22, 2017
Remember the time when we all wished for a pattern lock feature on our PC, running Windows? That wish is now a full-fledged reality, thanks to the Microsoft product development team, who rolled out this feature for Windows 10. Needless to say, a picture lock or a pattern lock is perhaps more convenient than remembering a bunch of alphanumeric combinations, which we often tend to forget or jumble up. A pattern lock, however, is a thing of our conscious mind, where we hold onto the pattern for practically indefinite periods of time, yet can draw it over a grid of points without our full consciousness. However, in Windows 10, it is not a pattern lock that you usually see on your Android phone, but it is a picture password which is slightly different from the pattern one. Let’s see what is picture password and how to set a picture password in Windows 10. What is Picture Password in Windows 10? A picture password tends to follow almost a similar path, with one minor difference: there is a picture in the background over which no visible grids of points are placed. Instead, a precise area on the picture should be remembered for drawing up a pattern, say for example a cat’s year or a dog’s nose. This feature of the Windows 10 perhaps emboldened the already tight security, since anyone who has the potential to break into a PC, would not know where to start or which pattern to make over the picture. So, now we know what is picture passwor ...

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