Windows 10: Microsoft Forcing Hello PIN after Passwordless Setup. How to disable?

I enabled passwordless login on my Microsoft account. Without any notice Microsoft then wiped out the local password setup on my PC and forces authentication from my phone. I actually prefer this but wasn't expecting the change to impact local PC logon behavior. The problem is now that this has somehow enabled Windows Hello so every time I authorize the login I'm prompted to setup a PIN and my only options are to do that or close the window. When I go to account settings on my PC the ability to toggle "For improved security, only allow Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts on this d

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If I disable Windows Hello Pin while the only other method setup is a Yubikey, what happens?

So as the title, suggests, if I have a security key and a Windows pin setup, and I disable the pin, does it force me to only be able to login with my security key? Or go through forgot password of course, since I enabled passwordless account in my settings?

[Moderator note: thread moved to Windows from Office]

 

Unable to setup Windows Hello, error: incorrect pin

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

May I know the complete error code or error message that you are receiving when you try to setup Windows Hello?

Do you have any other user account on the computer?

If yes, does Windows Hello work on that account?

If Windows Hello is not setup on other account, please setup it up and check if it works so that we can narrow down the issue for you.

I suggest to remove the pin and setup a new pin on the child account and check if it works with Windows Hello.

Please follow the steps below to remove and re-add the PIN:

• Press Windows logo key + I to open Settings.
  
• Select Accounts.
  
• Click on Sign-in options.
  
• Under PIN, remove the pin. There will be prompt to enter password, enter the password and removed the PIN.
  
• After the pin is removed, please click on
  Add to setup pin for the account.
  
• After setting up a new PIN, try to set up Windows Hello.
  

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Noor Azam S

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Passwordless Sign-in for MS account

On my desktop running Win10, 22H2, OS build 19045.2364 I'm the admin of the local account with no user accts. While I was reading one of Shawn's excellent tutorial's: Enable or Disable Passwordless Sign-in for Microsoft Accounts in Windows 10, I was hoping to find where to disable Passwordless Sign-in for MS accounts. I have it enabled because the sign-in screen into my Microsoft account lists "other sign-in options" (or something to those words). I also verified in the registry and netplwiz that its enabled. When selecting other sign-in options, a security key that I set up, first of all, disappeared all by itself recently. The security key is only one of two sign-in options for Passwordless sign-in that I ever set up. The other option was a Windows Hello PIN which I had up until this year but its no longer an option after I removed it myself. So where the problem comes in is after the authentication option using a security key is re-added, it ends up disappearing after about 24 hours later. When that happens, it leaves zero Passwordless Sign-in options to use (Windows Hello PIN was removed by myself in June). But Passwordless Sign-In will still remain enabled even though I can't sign-in Passwordless with any options. I'm left with signing in by using 2-step verification processes that I've had. Perhaps this is grasping at straws. I was thinking if there's a switch to disable Passwordless Sign-in to Microsoft Accounts that's turned off first, maybe then the security key can successfully be re-added permanently.