Sandcraft, this is not quite my scenario. At home, my password mostly serves the purpose that my visitors cannot easily enter my PC while I'm not in the same room monitoring them. This is mainly true for people I don't know about.

So my problem is, that my login password is visible to ANYONE standing next to me. And asking them for "uh, could you turn around, my password is shown" isn't exactly implying a good sense of security / "knowing what's going on" on my side.

My company notebook is a different story. We have a strict password-policy there and a help-line that would guide us through problems like this one. I don't have such a help-line at home. I rely on advice like yours to build up a good opinion about the current situation.