Windows 10: Unable to unlock / access my windows account when switching on computer

Hello, I am in a bit of a pinch and it would help me greatly if someone is able to assist me.


Recently, my laptop got terribly slow so my father decided to do a bit of cleaning on it. I think he did some disk space cleanup using a program in my computer that he downloaded. However, I think it deleted some file that helps to identify passwords? So now, I am locked out of my Windows account whenever the computer is switched on.


I tried to click the forgot my password option, but the screen will only load and take me back to my screensaver and it becomes an endless loop. Before this, I had used a PIN to access my laptop. And when I tried to do that also, the screen says “Something happened and your PIN isn’t available. Click to set up your PIN again.” Clicking on “Set up PIN” will do nothing but bring up my screensaver again.


Please help and thank you in advance.






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How to disable bitlocker auto unlock when my windows account password was changed?

How to prevent auto unlocking drives from my laptop when my windows password changed? Hack or change my account password to much more easy than decrypt disk, but why windows doesn't provide such functionality from the box? I looking for any scripts to auto unlock from powershell also.

I'm not going to "just disable unblock". It's very useful thing. I have too many things which starts from encrypted volume. I want to prevent access to my volume only just getting my account. If my system administrator account could be hacked, all sensitive data would be lost.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Login into your account
   
2. Set up bitlocker, auto-unlock
   
3. Restart PC and login into account
   
4. Drive unlocked
   
5. Logout from account (I switched off whole PC)
   
6. Ask sysadmin to change your password to new one
   
7. Login into your account with new password
   

Expected result: bitlocker drive locked

Actual result: drive unlocked

 

Why settings aren't even working ? unable to switch to Microsoft account again

• Since long time ago
• I don't get any error message but no response when clink to switch to my "Microsoft account instead"
• Yes I am able to sign in to my Microsoft account on my computer

 

local account unable to switch to MS account

That's ok. When you get to step 7 above, you would just leave it blank.

When you successfully switch to a Microsoft account, it will use the password of your Microsoft account.