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I have recently re-installed Windows 10. When I installed it I was forced to create a pin. I was able to remove the pin once I'd logged on but now every time I reboot my computer Windows insists that I create a pin for it, claiming "We think you'll like it". I don't like it, I like using my password and I find this incredibly annoying and intrusive; it takes me an extra 30 seconds to log in because I have to jump through a dozen hoops to skip the pin creation. How do I disable the pin feature on Windows 10? I don't want it to ever prompt me to create a pin again.
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Hi Francis, this is a bug in version 1803 . . .
Cancel the PIN prompt and login to your PC
Go to Windows Defender Security Centre icon on the tray.
Under 'Account Protection' go to 'Set up Windows Hello for faster, more secure sign-in'
Click 'Set-up', it will prompt you to set up a pin - don't.
Click "Dismiss"
After that, there should be no more prompting at startup
When I go to Windows Hello it states that it is not available on this machine.
Hello Euan
Try the steps in the article I recently wrote. Especially don't forget the step in the Red text colour. This should do the trick for you :). Let me know!
Windows 10 Cancel and Remove the PIN prompt
Hope this helps you get rid of the annoyance :)
I previously dismissed the Windows Hello on the Window's Defender screen. Now, it says "Windows Hello is not available on your device"... but it keeps asking me to set a PIN on startup.
Hi Francis, this is a bug in version 1803 . . .
Cancel the PIN prompt and login to your PC
Go to Windows Defender Security Centre icon on the tray.
Under 'Account Protection' go to 'Set up Windows Hello for faster, more secure sign-in'
Click 'Set-up', it will prompt you to set up a pin - don't.
Click "Dismiss"
After that, there should be no more prompting at startup
This does not disable it. I have gone to 'Account Protection', 'Set Up Windows Hello for faster, more secure sign-in', clicked 'Set Up' but input no PIN, then 'Dismiss'.
It now says everything is OK, no actiion needed (there was a warning before I did this)... but still get the blue screen asking to set up PIN every time I need to log in.
I want to use a password and not a PIN. I have looked to see if Hello is turned on and it says that it is not available on this device, so it’s not turned on. At log in it gives me the option for PIN or Password, I select password, enter my password and then it takes me to the PIN set up screen where it says that my organization requires it but I am not logging into a domain. The only options I have are “Set Up PIN” or a small icon that looks like a keyboard but when I click on that nothing happens. I click “Set up PIN” and then “cancel” it gives me an error code to send to my support and then gives me the option to “Skip for now”. I am now on my desktop. Log out and back in, have to go through the same steps. Make it stop!!!!
