Windows 10: PIN not an option for my Local Account or MS Account

Hello - I've been researching why I do not have the PIN option under my Sign-On options for my local and Microsoft accounts but I'm not having any luck finding out why. This is a clean install of Windows 10 and it is activated. Everything else works flawlessly except there isn't an option for me to use a PIN to login.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Can I skip putting in my password

Only if you change from a MS Account to a Local Account in Settings>Accounts and leave the password box blank.

Create a local user account in Windows 10 - Windows Help -

If you must keep the MS account, I suggest you go to the Sign In Options tab there to use a 4-digit PIN which is much easier.

Windows 10 Sign in: Password, PIN, Picture Password

 

Windows 10 change local acocunt password that is linked to Microsoft Account.

When I installed windows 10, I signed in with a local account. Later on, I linked it to my Microsoft account. I can sign in locally with the local account password or the MS account PIN. More often than not, I remote into my computer from work or home laptop.
RDP uses the local account password. I want to change the local account password without affecting the MS account password. How do I do this? Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't have the "change password" option, and using "control passwords2" (run box) -> "Advanced" tab
-> "Advanced" button -> "Users" -> right-click on user -> "set password" option says I will lose data.

Further, is it possible to add 2FA with the MS Authenticator app so I have to approve remote sign-in attempts?

 

I believe that I saw it sometime during the Preview builds, but not for 10240.

Go into settings/accounts/sign-in options. Can you set a PIN? (You may have to go through a verification through email.)

 

My Sign-In options screen doesn't even show an option for a PIN. Odd..

 

I had the pin option in build 10130, but it failed on the upgrade to 10158, and remained broken upgrading through all intermediate builds to 10240. I then reset that build, the pin may have been working, but I lost the start menu tiles, so I next did a clean install, with the same insider preview 10240, and against all indications it worked fine, including pin and Start menu, but it never activated, even til today. There was a change pin option in settings that did nothing during the failure builds.