Monday, March 11, 2024

Pin Not Available

Crazy Error I had not seen before. Pin not available blah blah.

I restarted a few times and it finally worked.

If it doesn't some say to do this and the old pin will work. They use the term "passowrd" so I don't know if they are talking about a local account or not.
I haven't had to try this yet.

Shift Restart to enter recovery
Troubleshoot to CMD

regedit

May need to "load hive" to get to it

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PasswordLess\Device

DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion (If not present, create the dword value)

set to 0

If loaded hive, unload it

Others say to delete the Ngc folder and Windows will recreate it.
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Ngc



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