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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.
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Microsoft. Redefining security.
Microsoft actually is trying to re-define security, and that's a good thing, but they're going about it in their usual ham-fisted way.
Forcing users to choose a PIN seems to be deliberate on the part of Microsoft. I got around it by crashing the page that asked for a PIN, which let me bypass it. That may not work anymore.
Patience, young Jedi, in time someone will publish a work-around. There's almost always a way.
Patience is for colder climates padawan. Let's jedi punch them.
Patience, young Jedi, in time someone will publish a work-around. There's almost always a way.
Technically, there already is a way... Quite a few of them even. They go by names that often, though not exclusively, end in "x". Seriously, I use and like Windows and hope the best for Microsoft. But I also use other operating systems. And every time something like this happens, I find myself booting into something else more often... Finding more ways to comfortably stay in other OSes.
Yeah, I know... I'm not Microsoft's target audience and they don't care. Still I think this represents a missed opportunity for them to better retain customers in a rapidly changing world.
Thanks so much! I must have accidentally clicked the PIN icon. I was going nuts until I found your solution.
This should be the top response. I did not even realize that a choice was selected when I was logging in because the selection of the 10-key versus the password is not obvious. This is either Microsoft being inept or they are trying to manipulate people. Thank you so much for posting this!
