If you’re a Windows 10 user, you may have noticed that your login screen doesn’t show the usual username and password combo. Instead, you get a prompt to enter your PIN. To log in with a PIN on Windows 10, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app and click on the Security tab.
  2. Under Login Options, click on the Add New Login Item button.
  3. In the Name field, type in yourPIN and press OK.
  4. Click on the Add button to finish creating your new login item.
  5. When you’re finished logging in with a PIN, your login screen will look like this:
  6. To change your PIN, open the Settings app again and click on the Security tab again. Under Login Options, click on the Change Password button and enter a new PIN into the text field (or use one of your existingPINs). Click OK to finish changing your password.

By default, whenever you set up a “Windows Hello” login method such as a fingerprint reader, facial recognition scan, or PIN, Windows 10 will disable the password login method. If you’d like to log in to your Windows account with a password again, here’s how to get that option back.

First, open Settings. Click the “gear” icon in your Start menu or press Windows+i on your keyboard to open it quickly.

In Settings, select “Accounts.”

In “Accounts,” look in the sidebar and select “Sign-in options.”

In “Sign-in options,” scroll down until you see “Require Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts.” Flip the switch beneath it to “Off.”

After that, close Settings. The next time you log out or lock the screen (Press Windows+L to lock the screen quickly if you’d like to test.), you’ll have the password sign-in option available to you again. Best of all, you can still use the Windows Hello sign-in options if you want.

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