Windows 10: Rules for new Microsoft sign in PIN

I keep getting a request that I make a PIN when I sign into Microsoft 10. At first I tried to fight it because I didn't want one more thing to remember, I am 75 years old this year and my memory doesn't work very well. I went through forums looking for how to go back to using my old password and tried all of the ideas and none of them work. I understand that some people get a message asking to create a pin later but I don't get that, just a locked in loop, when I hit cancel it takes me back to create a PIN. So reluctantly I am willing to create a PIN and I know that will lead to a nightmare of not understanding what is wanted. Still, what are the rules for creating a PIN? How many characters? Alpha, numeric, special characters, capital letters? I can find nothing on this. I have no idea what to do, or what this is for, or when I should use it. Currently I turn off my computer to get out of the PIN request and the second time windows 10 loads it allows me to log on with my old windows password

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Remove sign in pin

Hi Joel,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community. Your interest in Windows 10 is much appreciated.

I suggest you to follow the below steps to remove the sign in pin/password options.

• In the search box type sign-in-option.
• Click on the sign-in-option.
• Then you can find password/pin/picture password.
• There you can remove the option and check.

Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

Using Pin to sign on continues to fail

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community. I understand that you have an issue with signing in to User Account using PIN.

I will surely help you to fix this issue.

This issue could have occurred due to corrupt User Account.

I suggest you to create a new User Account and try to create a PIN for it. Check if you can login to that User Account using PIN.

To create a new User Account follow these steps:

• Click on Start.
• Click on Settings.
• Type ‘Add, delete and manage other user accounts’ in search box.
• Now click on ‘Add someone else to this pc’.
• And follow the instructions to create a new User Account.

Hope this information helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of the issue so that we can assist you further.

 

Microsoft Account PIN and password

We appreciate the screenshot that you provided. to start troubleshooting the issue with you logins, we suggest that you follow the steps below on how login pin goes back to password:

• Click Start menu and go to Settings.
• In Settings, click the Accounts icon.
• Click on Sign-in options.
• Change both your password and pin one by one.

Let us know how it goes.