Something happened and your PIN isn't available. Click to set up your PIN again.

That does bring out another important point - move all your data directories to D: if you have a second drive. Documents, pictures, etc. can all be redirected and should be. That way if you have to do such a reinstall, you won't lose files.

2nd note to everyone fairly new at this; when you get a new PC, as soon as you can set up extra accounts, some as Admin. Always have an alternate admin account you can log into. That gives you choices if you run into this problem. This becomes especially important if you only have one, fairly small drive in your PC (smaller new PC's may have a single, say 500gb SSD and no hard drive and no practical way to expand internally). I'll soon have one like this (odd situation) so I need to make the best of it. And I have to find a way to image it and back it up regularly and have a recovery flash drive.

Did ya bother to try it or are you being stubborn?

When FastBoot is enabled it can lead to multiple issues if something in the registry has changed due to the ram not getting flushed properly because it doesn't ever actually shut down the PC ever. Thus why it can boot quickly because it's all saved in the dram. I gave up having any PC of mine utilize FastBoot. I have enough patience that my pc booting in 20 seconds instead of 10 seconds isn't gonna ruin my day. I'll sacrifice 10 seconds to have stability over booting quick any day. MsConfig can be reinjected in multiple ways without reinstalling the entire OS. Take the darn harddrive and connect it to a different pc and copy it into the system32 location, or copy it onto a thumbdrive and then to the drive. What about using DISM through the diagnostics via cmd prompt or has anyone suggested to the original poster to maybe revert the registry if a back up is availble. . I'm telling ya'll I tried multiple trial and errors to fix this stupid issue and the cause of it is the Darn Ram not getting flushed maintaining a corrupted registry and disabling fastboot and rebooting will put it back to normal to allow ya into the OS and then ya can put in a new pin and then reboot into bios and re enable fastboot if ya really feel it needs to be turned on. Personally this is the problem with using the pin in the first place. just use a password and ya will never ever have that issue ever!

The fastboot thing did nothing for me. All I did initially was enter diagnostic startup like I've done years past. And because I chose to use a pin (silly me, who knew?) it now refuses to let me back into Windows.

Very

Very

Annoying.

Hello there! I'm sorry that didn't work. You can try this steps instead:

Turn off your PC

Start your PC, just as Windows attempts to load (spinning dots), press and hold Power Button on the casing of your PC for 5 - 10 seconds to perform a Hard Shut Down

Do this twice

On the third start Windows will boot into the Recovery Environment and from there you can access System Repair, Safe Mode, Command Prompt . . . etc.

Please try each option one at a time, then see of Windows will boot . . .

Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - Startup Repair
See if Windows startup can repair itself

Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - System Restore
Check to see if you have a restore point you can go back to

If you do not have a Restore Point, go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - Startup Settings and click Restart
Upon restart, press 4 to enter Safe Mode
Once in Safe Mode, backup your data if you do not already have a backup
Open Device Manager and check to make sure all your Drivers are up to date
Reboot to see if Windows will start Normally

If the above fails, go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Options - Reset this PC
Choose to keep your files and apps, just your files or to keep nothing
Then start the Reset

Hope this will do the trick

Regards,
Louie

I tried them but it ask for a password before it runs any thing like (when I click reset PC, it asks for a password before it reset) and I don't know the passworfd.

Turn off your PC

Wow... Thank you Microsoft.

My laptop has integrated RAMs and currently have problems booting when it gets shut down. By turning it off I'm literally saying goodbye to that laptop as I don't want to do thousands of booting and turning off till that one lucky try when it does indeed boot.

Thanks Microsoft, I hate it