Why am I being asked for a Passkey? How do I turn off passkeys?

This "Passkey" garbage has run me around circles long enough. OK you made me have a photograph just to get into my computer and called it "Passkey", but it only works to turn on my computer. Everywhere I try to go anymore it tells me that "Windows Security" wants me too INSERT A PASSKEY, now it is no longer acceptable, WINDOWS WANT ME TO HAVE TO INSERT SOMETHING AS A PASSKEY WHEN I NEVER EVEN HAD A PASSKEY (except when WIN10 UNILATERALLY DECIDED THAT I NEEDED TO SHO THE COMPUITER MY FACE (which it then designed my face a "PASSKEY" THAT NEVER SEEMS TO WORK ANYWERE EXCEPT FOR BEING ABLE TO OPEN UP MY COMPUTER, I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING CALLED PASSKEY TO INSERT SOMEWHERE INTO A COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE A SLOT LABELED "PASSKEY" [ALTHOUGH I HAVE INDEPENDENTLY DECIDED WHERE I WOULD NOW GLADLY INSERT AN OVERSIZE "PASSKEY" INTO, AND IT HAS NOTHING TO WITH COMPUTER HARDWARE!!!.

I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CONVINCE "WINDOWS SECURITY" THAT I DO NOT, NOR HAVE I EVER, HAD ANYTHING EVEN VAGUELY RESEMPLING A 'PHYSICAL PASSKEY, NOR DO I KNOW HOW MAKE ONE!!! HOW DO I GET INTO ANYTHING ON MY COMPUTGER WITH SOMETHING I NEVER HAD, NOR DO I EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS.

Lets reason this out. I paid for my computer, and inferrentially paid for the Win10 OS [since I doubt that the vendor is just 'givinge away "PASSKEYS", yet here we are now: "Windows Security" was not satisfied with telling me that i am already "NOT AUTHORIZED" to see, add onto, or deleted from information that is CONTAINED WITHIN A COMPUTER THAT I PAID FOR, and now, in another iteration of making themselves INDISPENSIBLE, by forcing me to try to figure our where to get a PHYSICAL PASSKEY (the FACE that is required to turn the computer on is not enough) to get into files that I also "OWN" but and not even certain exists, because I cannot even figure out what a physical passkey is, nor even if I were to have one I would not even have a clue as to where to INSERT IT INTO!!!.

IT ALMOSTS SOUNDS LIKE "WINDOWS SECURITY" HAS NOW DEVELOPED ITS OWN PERSONAL INTERRUPTION OF MY ACCESS INTO MY OWN DATA ON MY OWN COMPUTER. IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE THE WORD "PASSKEY" IS A NEW VERSION OF WHAT THEY USED TO CALL "RANSOMWARE"

DID I MISS SOMETHING?

So this user's frustration is happening to at least 10,000 other people daily and they can't even post as much because inevitably a broken passkey has locked them out of their account.

We could call them all wrong and point the fingers at them but ultimately, they are not able to use their computers, because of an absolutely broken, and low IQ implementation of passkeys.

I meet a user like this dozens of times a week who are simply trying to operate their computer as they have been for decades and just cannot do so anymore because they are being demanded to provide something they never setup, and were never told about, and if they are being told about it it's not being explained properly.

This thread initiated by Sir Blain expresses exactly the severe annoyance I find with Microsoft RE their stupid "Passkey" system. Since my technical knowledge is much more limited than Sir Blain, I still find this baffling. However I am glad to see someone address the sheer stupidity and arrogance of the Microsoft "engineers" or whoever designs this stuff for the vast #'s of end-users like myself who simply need (or have been forced by circumstances) to use these wretched Microsoft Windows products.

I seriously despise the way Microsoft ropes us into using their products and then gums it up with idiotic things like "passkeys". Sir Blain expressed with more precision the exact problem I've had repeatedly.

Now, I wish I understood what Sir Blain means about simply logging into my local computer without logging into Microsoft. Oh how I wish I could do that easily. I have no idea what he's talking about. I doubt I'm the only end-user who would prefer that. IF there is intelligent life (who also knows how to communicate without all the Microsoft abbreviations and acronymns that are almost as bad as the Federal Government's alphabet soup of mind-numbing meaningless gobbledygook) I would SO appreciate (no kidding) a clear explanation of how to stop using Windows "passkeys" and the "Hello" prompts and simply USE MY OWN COMPUTER efficiently. How can I log in to my Windows computer in a local application without the Microsoft interference of asking for passkeys? How? Please, someone give a specific list of steps to help me do that. I would love it. And do NOT say go to the "community". That is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME.