Stop asking me to create a PIN!

I also do not wish to use a PIN.

A PIN is LESS secure than a local password!

This is because a PIN leaks information about it's length, and a password does not.

I would be fine with a local password, if it was forced.

I was just prompted with a blue screen on black that gave me a choice of set up a pin now, or to be reminded a few days later.  It also tried to get me to buy a subscription to office 365, which at least i was able to refuse.

Please stop with this nonsense about it being more secure than a password, when it is less.

This is not a viable solution, this removes the necessity to enter ANY password at all to use my PC.

I want to use JUST my password, not a PIN, not a fingerprint, nothing else.  Just my password.  And it keeps nagging me to create a pin every single time I log in to my computer.  Absurd.

I do not want to change my microsoft password to another intrusive method i dont want ANOTHER PASSWORD

The real problem is that Microsoft gets an idea (like a PIN) and they’re so proud of themselves for having a new feature that they ramrod it down your throat. They never. ask - they just turn this **** on and then good luck finding all of the places to turn it off. Netplwiz has NOTHING to do with PINs. GPEDIT is another place to look or how about the Registry too?  Powershell? Yes look there. Settings - Better check that...

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.

The problem has "magically" gone away without me doing anything.  I guess that MS figured out their error and corrected it.

John Samuels