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With Windows 10 and now Windows 11, on this forum and across the web, there are reports of problems relating to logging in using a pin. This has me thinking about what misery this can of worms will give users going forward.
Folks find themselves locked out because they forget their pin or entered their correct pin but didn’t notice the CAPS lock was on and tried too many times. Right here on this form, a user was locked out of his computer due to a simple bios update. I even read reports where a user could not login after a power surge. Usually when such instances happen, if things are working like they’re supposed to, we have an option to set up another pin, but we all know things don’t always happen as they’re supposed to. Weird stuff happens.
When you couple in a user’s lack of understanding surrounding TPM/Windows Hello (and I’m one of them), it's my thinking that the future is going to cause trouble for a lot of people. Personally I love the convenience of using a 4 digit pin instead of a 12 digit complex password, but not at the expense of possibly losing access to Windows at some point due to some fluky occurrence.
So, my question to you is “As a CYA measure, doesn’t it make sense to disable Windows Hello and rely solely on a password?”
Folks find themselves locked out because they forget their pin or entered their correct pin but didn’t notice the CAPS lock was on and tried too many times. Right here on this form, a user was locked out of his computer due to a simple bios update. I even read reports where a user could not login after a power surge. Usually when such instances happen, if things are working like they’re supposed to, we have an option to set up another pin, but we all know things don’t always happen as they’re supposed to. Weird stuff happens.
When you couple in a user’s lack of understanding surrounding TPM/Windows Hello (and I’m one of them), it's my thinking that the future is going to cause trouble for a lot of people. Personally I love the convenience of using a 4 digit pin instead of a 12 digit complex password, but not at the expense of possibly losing access to Windows at some point due to some fluky occurrence.
So, my question to you is “As a CYA measure, doesn’t it make sense to disable Windows Hello and rely solely on a password?”
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