Windows 10: PIN and password don't work after latest update

Automatic update pushed last night. Upon restart I typed the PIN I have used since I bought this computer with Windows 10 a year ago. Message said PIN is incorrect. It is not. It's the same PIN. Tried password. Same message. Changed password on another device. I can log in to my Microsoft account on my iPad and Android, but not the PC running Windows 10.

All "help" suggestions say "check to be sure you are connected to the Internet.I CAN'T LOG IN AT ALL! Anybody else having this problem? I have tried restarting holding this shift key and then all the options under troubleshoot. THEY ALL REQUIRE A PASSWORD! WHICJ DOES NOT WORK!

Help me, please, Obi Wan Kenobe. you're my only hope.

:)

 

pin not working

After the latest update my wife's pin nolonger works in Windows 10. She does not have a password so we cannot get in to the system. How can we fix this? I have looked through the many solutions posted and all I see are solutions that entail logging in
with a password and then resetting the pin. My wife only has a pin.

 

Windows 10 login not working after last update

This is a different issue all together. This person said the pin is not working. The pin issue that people are experiencing started right after this recent update. less than a day ago. For the people that were using pins, not passwords to get in now
the pin does not work for them after this update. So they are forced to switch over to using there passwords. The pin is an option for people that have longer passwords and do not wish to type it out every time. Well after this recent update peoples pins
do not work. The link you gave this guy is for password not working. Completely a different issue.

 

Having exactly the same problem following automatic update. Extremely annoying!!

 

So what do we do? Microsoft help is no help. I have papers to grade.

 

Have been looking across net for suggestions but nothing yet.

Like you I need urgent access. Looks like yet again Microsoft have messed things up and we are the ones who are on the recieving end of their incompetence.

 

I had the same problem yesterday. The only solution was to use my Microsoft live password. Unfortunately, when I went to enter it I received a message that it was incorrect either that or I was entering the wrong one. It was easy enough to change it using the "Forgot password" protocol. Once the password was in place it worked both as a pin and as the Microsoft password. I guess they want to streamline everything to their username and password. Would have been nice to tell us in advance. Whoops, nice going Monolithic, soulless corporation as you attempt to crush the independence that is the very heart of the pc hardcore user. As for my other PCs "I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty (Linux) or give me death." Patrick Henry (Well known power user)

 

I don't even know what a Microsoft Live password is. I changed my password and it works on my iPad and Android phone, but not my PC.

 

Hi Knighterrant

Managed to get back in by resetting Microsoft password as you suggested. Thanks for your advice.

 

Went through the process of resetting the password and still can't get in.

 

I did this. Can't get in on my PC but all other devices OK.

 

I hate to say it but Microsoft might be your next stop. One thing a ran across when searching for a solution. See below:

PB
PBehrani replied on July 31, 2015



FYI.
I figured out the issue in my case.
It is the laptop keyboard not functioning correctly. It appears that the driver is not working correctly.
There are some keys that don't work.
Password was not getting entered correctly due to this issue.
In my case it was the key for number 1, and I was able to work around that by using the number pad on the right.
Hope that helps.
Lesson learnt: Don't be on the bleeding edge.
I will certainly wait for a few months to transition my other devices to Windows 10 until proper drivers for devices are available.

Hope this helps.

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/222262/how-...in-windows-10/

 

Before login, click the small eye symbol icon on the right corner of the password box, check if your typed password is correct.

 

I hope I am on the right thread here! I have a HP Compaq 8200 Elite PC which I got second hand but refurbished. Win 7 or 8 when I got it and took the Win10 upgrade option(AAAAAAARGH!!!) Somehow managed to get a password on it accidentally during setup, so chose nothing as the password which was accepted by the system. I am the only user. ie no admin etc. After about a month it told me to change the password, so rather than arguing with it I put in a password. Easy, no problem. Then I went away for four months in May and came back this week. I get as far as the blue page for the password and enter password and it tells me it is wrong. I KNOW it is one of three passwords but it will not accept any. I have tried the microsoft website and logged on to that with this laptop, tried using that same password on the PC to no avail. So I cannot even get into my PC to change anything or tell what system is, other than I am sure it is 32bit. I feel as though something's gone rusty, or microsoft is trying me out as per the suspicions/conspiracy theories out there. Any suggestions please?