Windows 8 comes with a number of innovative features, Picture Password is one of them. You can logon to your system by touching or clicking specific parts of for passing the authentication. One can use pictures stored in library, gestures along specific part of picture can also be used if you are having touch screen monitor.

Steps:
  • Log in to metro Control Panel tile, Select User and then create a picture password, you will have to enter you current password and proceed.

  • After entering the password you can click on “Choose picture” button and select the one you like from library and click on ok.

  • Click on “use this picture” for confirmation, you can now Touch and swipe or click and drag in three points on the picture that you might have chosen. You will have to repeat the points you might have selected for confirming it as your password.

  • Once you get a message saying “Congratulations!!! You have successfully created a picture password. You can Use it the next time you log on to windows” then click on ok.


Now next time you will see the same picture as your desktop background image and you can simply click on those points on the picture for logging in.