Windows 10: Disable Pin Complexity Requirements 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 like "1234". I have my reasons why I want to do this. Is there any way?

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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.

 

Disable Windows 10 Pro PIN complexity rules

From Group Policy Editor, you may enable or disable other policies when creating a PIN. You can also configure them to your preferred option. You may double-click the policy that you want to enable or disable according to your preferences. Here's a description
of each policy that is included in the PIN complexity:

• Require digits
  • Not configured - Users must include a digit in their PIN.
    
  • Enabled - Users must include a digit in their PIN.
    
  • Disabled -Users can not use digits in their PIN.
• Require lowercase letters
  • Not configured - Users can not use lowercase letters in their PIN.
    
  • Enabled - Users must include at least one lowercase letter in their PIN.
    
  • Disabled - Users can not use lowercase letters in their PIN.
    
• Maximum PIN length
  • Not configured - PIN length must be less than or equal to 127.
    
  • Enabled - PIN length must be less than or equal to the number you specify.
    
  • Disabled - PIN length must be less than or equal to 127.
    
• Minimum PIN length
  • Not configured - PIN length must be greater than or equal to 4.
    
  • Enabled - PIN length must be greater than or equal to the number you specify.
    
  • Disabled - PIN length must be greater than or equal to 4.
    
• Expiration
  • Not configured - PIN does not expire.
    
  • Enabled - PIN can be set to expire after any number of days between 1 and 730, or PIN can be set to never expire by setting the policy to 0.
    
  • Disabled - PIN does not expire.
    
• History
  • Not configured - Previous PINs are not stored.
    
  • Enabled - Specify the number of previous PINs that can be associated to a user account that can't be reused.
    
  • Disabled - Previous PINs are not stored.
    
• Require special characters
  • Not configured - Users can not include a special character in their PIN.
    
  • Enabled - Users must include at least one special character in their PIN.
    
  • Disabled - Users can not include a special character in their PIN.
    

• Require uppercase letters
  • Not configured - Users can not include an uppercase letter in their PIN.
    
  • Enabled - Users must include at least one uppercase letter in their PIN.
    
  • Disabled - Users can not include an uppercase letter in their PIN.

After configuring the policy settings, attempt to create your desired PIN that would meet those requirements, this is to check if those policies would work. If the PIN and the policy settings are not working, attempt to create those policy settings and PIN
on another device to see if it is isolated to your device only. If it still persists, kindly send the issue through the
Feedback Hub app. This way, engineers would see this problem and address it. You may follow the steps on this
link on how to send feedback to Microsoft through the
Feedback Hub app. If you are to submit a feedback through the
Feedback Hub app, make sure that you include every detail about the issue so that the engineers would have a better understanding of the issue. Also, make sure to visit your submission frequently for news or updates about what you have submitted.

If you have further questions, feel free to ask us.

 

Disable Pin Complexity Requirements

Hi OneCheesyChap

My name is Andre Da Costa; an Independent Consultant, Windows Insider MVP and Windows & Devices for IT MVP. I'm here to help you with your problem.

Click Start, type: regedit

Right click regedit

Click Run as Administrator

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\PassportForWork\PINComplexity

Double click the DWORD value Digits in the right pane then change its value to 2 to disable it.

If you are running Windows 10 Pro, here are steps for disabling it through Group Policy Editor:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/80777-enabl...

Information in the above link is sourced from a trusted Microsoft MVP blog.