Windows 10: Disable Pin Complexity Requirements for Patterns Windows 11 Pro

Hi, I want do disable the Windows Hello Pin requirements on my Windows 11 Pro machine so that i can set a simple combination pattern like "1234". I have my reasons why I want to do this. Is there any way?With regedit or through group policy editor I'm not able to disable the "Pattern" option.

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Disable Pin Complexity Requirements

I know the pin complexity requirements. I want to know if there's a way to disable/bypass them.

 

Bypassing the "common number pattern" PIN requirement

Hello,

I'm unable to fully adjust my device's policy for Windows Hello PIN Complexity. Specifically, the requirement that the PIN may not be a common number pattern appears to be unchangeable. This is a desktop using Windows 10 Pro.

I understand that I am able to adjust my PIN Complexity through the Local Group Policy Editor:



This does not allow me to bypass the common number pattern requirement. The list of adjustable settings does not include an entry that determines that requirement.

I also understand that I am able to adjust my PIN Complexity settings through the Registry Editor:





The available entries don't help me here either. They've all been set to 0 to disable them anyway, but that doesn't seem to have removed the common number pattern requirement. To show the error message I'm trying to bypass, here's an example of a number
pattern:





Because the pattern recognition I'm trying to bypass looks for constantly ascending or descending patterns, 1975 (a pattern ascending by 8 each time) can't be chosen as a PIN, among others. This often feels arbitrary on the user's end, so I'd really appreciate
some assistance in getting around this. The only option I'm aware of would be to set these desktops up intentionally on a Windows 10 build earlier than 1703, set the PIN, update them to 20H2, then hope nothing ever arises requiring that PIN to be changed.
I'd really like to avoid this option, if possible.

 

Disable Windows 10 Pro PIN complexity rules

I've searched everywhere, and I can't find an answer to this.

When I try to add a PIN, which is on a TEST laptop that I intend to use only for Insider builds, it complains that I have to "Provide a PIN that meets the complexity requirements. Your PIN can't be a common number pattern".

I've turned off all the other settings in the group policy editor, so that it's just a standard 4-digit pin. No history, no expiration, no requirement of letters or upper/lower case. BUT THERE'S NO SETTING FOR THE NUMBER PATTERN. I don't care if it's insecure. I want to log in quickly and simply just to test things.

How can I disable this? It was apparently recently added, as I've had a simple PIN for a while, but the latest insider build crashed my PC and I had to reset/revert it. And since it's a brand new install, it erased my existing PIN, so when I went to add it... I couldn't.

This is really frustrating. I understand the need for security for most people in most situations, but I'm not in any of those situations, and I really don't want to make up some new complicated PIN I won't remember or have to write down (defeating the purpose anyway). If I want my PIN to be "1111" or "2222", how do I enable this, and TURN OF the complexity and pattern requirements?

Also, most of the stuff I found was for domain-joined business computers. This is a stand-alone laptop running Windows Pro. No "Windows Hello", nothing fancy.

Help?