Windows 10: If I change my pin for windows hello on windows 10, will I lose my stored passkeys?

I would like to create a stronger pin for Windows Hello Windows 10. I want to change i.e. update the existing pin. If I do this without deleting the current pin, will my passkeys remain stored on my device?

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Passkey disappeared after changing PIN

I recently started using the Hello passkey feature to use a PIN to log-in to my HP Probook, Windows 11 Pro, and to log into one specific app that requires a passkey. It worked fine until I decided to change my PIN to make it longer.

After changing my PIN, the app I need to log in to stopped showing the option to use Hello to sign in (it only offers me the choices of mobile or USB passkeys - same thing when just now I tried to log into this Microsoft site with a passkey, didn't show the option of Windows).

And looking under passkey settings in Windows, it says I have no saved passkeys.

(I've seen in the help docs here that the Windows login itself should appear on the passkey, list...? But I don't even see that.)

Any way to recover this? The passkey would've been stored locally on my PC...? Can I find that file?

I was not signed into Microsoft ever on this PC. But I hope they don't just delete all passkeys because of a simple PIN change....?

 

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.