Stop asking me to create a PIN!

Anonymous
2018-05-20T21:30:43+00:00

please o please tell me how i can stop Windows 10 from asking me to create a PIN to login with.....I DO NOT WANT TO CREATE ONE! no matter what I do it forces me to create one. 

I understand it might be more secure etc etc but I DO NOT WANT TO CREATE ONE!

I am more than happy to enter in my normal password to access my profile I DO NOT WANT A PIN

Please assist me in stopping this annoyance. Its my computer and I will have it work the way I want it to.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-04T19:00:56+00:00

    The problem is every single Windows update somehow resets these options.  I have literally followed those instructions MULTIPLE times and in a few months, I guarantee my laptop is going to go through the Pin setup again with no ability to bypass.  It even states 'this device REQUIRES a Pin', which is ridiculously stupid when I've disabled Pin login in group policy.  It will force me to create a Pin despite the gpedit.

    This is one heck of an annoying bug.

    Scanning through replies, it seems that people fall into one of 2 camps:

    • want to login w/ password, do not use Pin
    • do not want any security... no PW, no Pin.  Many of us are using multiple devices networked

    Some of the solutions here will be helpful for those in the first camp.

    For us in the 2nd group, none of these options help.

    I need to have my pc's on all the time.  If they crash or lose power, they auto-reboot.  I need them auto-login at that point.

    I've set all that up easily, no problem...

    ...except for the incessant Pin garbage, that on occasion prevents one of my devices from logging in.

    The fact that it affects only 1 of my devices somewhat points to some kind of update error or hiccup where it keeps going back to Pin setup.

    Still stupid no matter what.  But I fear this thread being closed when some of us want a solution.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-23T13:24:01+00:00

    NO this does not work!  I've disabled passwords using netplwiz and in settings and in the registry and I still get prompted for a PIN from Outlook.  I DO NOT WANT TO BE PROMPTED FOR ANY PASSWORDS OR PINS.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-16T15:08:41+00:00

    102410md

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-11T10:03:16+00:00

    You're correct. I found that Windows for a linked mircrosft account would like to setup the Windows hello feature. I have found that if you go into settings and Sign-in options, you can setup a generic pin. Once this is done you can then disable the feature and then remove the pin afterwards. This would then allow every power on of the system to go back to just requiring the microsft account password. I've had several instances like this from windows whilst repairing clients machines.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-08-24T15:45:34+00:00

    I just made it so the PIN accepted Characters and Numbers and just put in my password lol

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