Grrr Windows 10 sign in options

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#272726 12-Jul-2020 12:17

The four digit PIN has stopped working for the second time. It says "Something went wrong (meaningless error code) and your PIN isn't available."

My laptop has a fingerprint reader but it has never recognised my finger. Probably not Microsoft's fault in this case.

The only sign in option that does work is a password sign in.

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#2521428 12-Jul-2020 13:44

So your rant is basically that you have to enter a password rather than a 4 digit pin #, and that somehow is not an acceptable sign in option? What other option would you rather have?

Lazy is such an ugly word, I prefer to call it selective participation

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#2521429 12-Jul-2020 13:56

It's not a rant as you claim. I'm just wondering why the hell the PIN sign in has failed again. Do you have a helpful suggestion?

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#2521432 12-Jul-2020 14:01

This has happened to me on one of my laptops a few times. Rebooting has always fixed it. Does your laptop have Windows Hello and face unlock.?

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2521451 12-Jul-2020 14:28

Most likely caused by corruption of a folder. You may want to make sure your HDD/SSD is healthy.

Walk through to fix here:

https://www.askvg.com/fix-unable-to-add-and-use-pin-sign-in-option-in-windows-10/

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#2521464 12-Jul-2020 15:26

I have experienced this off and on along with BitLocker encryption problems. I was lucky my Surface had stored my BitLocker key to my MS account as when I was reading up on it, it isn't normal to happen automatically!

A reboot tended to fix the PIN issue for me and I haven't seen it pop up in a long time now