Windows 10: There is no way to back out of creating a PIN for Windows 10 once you accidentally click...

I don't know which would be more charitable, to attribute this design decision to outright hostile design practices, or to such incalculably massive incompetence. If you so much as accidentally hit the option to create a PIN for logging in, then you are forced into the process of creating a PIN despite the fact that you need to log in TWICE to do this once with the local password and then once with the microsoft account login details, and despite the fact that the operating system runs in regular mode in the background during the entirety of this process as evidenced by the fact that you can alt-tab to different windows which are covered up by this absolutely INFURIATING commandment that I create a PIN. Literally, the OS has everything I want to do running in the background, but because I accidentally hit some "create a PIN" button which IS NOT LABELLED AS A "CREATE A PIN" BUTTON, I am now held captive by my OS.


I understand that what I need to do is to 1 create the PIN and then 2 go deep into my settings to remove it.


I want a no-BS answer on WHY this design decision was made. This was not a mistake or fluke in design. This was intentional. You have to go above and beyond the normal process of creating a regular window to create one which is /always fullscreen/ and which /sits on top of anything you can tab to/, which /locks you out of pressing the home button/, and which /contains no buttons to minimize or exit/. This is malicious design. I want to know why. This violates so many principles of design. Why.

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Can't create pin for login. Pin stopped working

Hi Kevin,

To resolve your concern about creating pin to your computer, we suggest that you follow these steps:

• Navigate to C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\NGC (click to get permission when prompted).
• Delete the contents of that folder (delete everything in that folder, but leave that folder and everything above it).
• Go back to settings, accounts, sign in options.
• Your non-working pin will now be gone, and you can just click 'add a pin' and set it again.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Windows 10 Settings, Adding a pin not working.

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

Instead of entering a password, you can sign in quickly with a four-digit PIN. I suggest you to follow the steps below to create a PIN to make sure that you're following the right way :

• Go to Start , and select Settings > Accounts >
  Sign-in options.
• Under PIN, select Add.
• If you don't have a password on your account, you'll need to create a password before you can create a PIN.
• Confirm your current password, and then you can create a PIN.
• Now you can sign in using your four-digit PIN.

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

 

Clear "Pin suggested" list in People Bar

Does anybody know how to clear the "Pin suggested" list on the "People bar"?

Contacts are added to the "Pin suggested" list once you've pinned and unpinned them. But there seems to be no obvious way to remove them from that list.

After playing around with this feature and pinning and unpinning many dummy contacts, it's rather annoying to see them in the "Pin suggested" list when you click on the "My People" icon in the taskbar.