Windows 10: Windows 11 is suddenly asking for PIN instead of password

HI,yesterday I went to my University and used my HP probook in the first two hours without any issues. Then I went to eat something and when I turned it on for the next class, it suddenly asked for a PIN instead of my password. To be honest I have never set up any PIN on the laptop, neither have I on the others. I pressed the "I forgot my PIN" but i was just redirected to the Picture you get, where you have to press a key and the pictures moves upwards so you get to enter your password, basically it is a loop. I checked my other laptop and below the "I forgot my PIN" it has "Sign-In-Options" t

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Windows 10 asks for password instead of PIN

I restarted my Windows 10 laptop and out of the blue, the login screen decides to ask for a password instead of my PIN which it usually does. Now I don't even remember if iIever set up a password, but if I did, I am very certain that there is only one I
would have used, but it says it's incorrect. I want to ask if there is a way to make it ask for my PIN instead.

Also, for some reason it isn't showing internet connection even though i have it connected through ethernet.

 

Windows suddenly as for password instead of pin, but password is in password manager...

Sometime windows thinks it has to try to get me to use internet explorer and says something about use recommended settings and then it asks for my account password instead of PIN for login (luckily i just recently setup my password manager across multiple devices, but it still sucks to enter 16random chars manually)

There is a reason why i enabled PIN, otherwise i dont want to login with microsoft account at all during boot. How to stop windows from asking for account password during login from time to time (99% of time it works and only asks for PIN)

 

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Hello Billy,



Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. We regret the inconvenience caused and will assist you in resolving the issue.



Before assisting further, I would like to ask you few questions:

• Do you see Sign-in options option on the lock screen?
• Are you using Microsoft account to login into the user profile?

If you have set an alpha-numeric password at the installation stage of Windows 10 OS and then changed the sign-in option to PIN password, you will be able to choose between the passwords entries at the login screen of the Windows.

Method 1: I suggest you to check if you see the
Sign-in options option on the lock screen. If you do, click on the option and check if you can choose and enter PIN password to access your user profile.



Method 2: If the option is not presented on the lock screen and you are using Microsoft account to login into the user profile,
I suggest you to change the login password from the link below and set PIN password to your user account by following the steps below.

https://account.live.com/password/reset

• Press Windows logo key on the keyboard, type Settings and select the top most search result.
• Select Accounts from the options and click on
  Sign-in options from the left side panel of the window.
• Click on Add under PIN settings, verify your account and setup a new PIN password for your user account.

Write to us with the answers to the above questions and the status of the issue on the same post for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.



Thank you.