Win11 Home Login page keeps asking for password instead of PIN

For at least the last year on this Win11 machine I've had my screen timeout set to 15 minutes and if I come back to the laptop after that, the screen has gone black and when I wake it up with a mouse-click or press a key on the keyboard, it asked me for my PIN.

For the last week or so, 90% of the time instead of asking me for the PIN it asks me for the password. I have to click on sign-on options and switch to PIN.

It's annoying waking it up with a keypress, entering my PIN quickly and seeing an error because it wasn't asking for a PIN, it was asking for a password.

Hello mate,

If wanted, you could enable passwordless sign-in to no longer see the password sign-in option.

Brink said:

Hello mate,

If wanted, you could enable passwordless sign-in to no longer see the password sign-in option.

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Thanks for that. I already had those "for microsoft accounts" settings set in that way. As for the "for local accounts" one. I've tried that, and it's still there on the login screen.

I did notice something unexpected. When I click on the password option (rather than my usual clicking only on the PIN one) it says "Global Protect" on it, which is the VPN of my employer that I need to use to access their intranet servers. I guess when I installed that (or during a recent update) it enforced this defaulting to password because it's safer than PIN. One of those "organizational requirements" things.

I guess I'm going to be living with this minor annoyance as long as I need that VPN installed

Thanks Shawn.

Organization (work) policies will indeed override.

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