You go to account.microsoft.com

-> you lock your laptop from there

Surprise. After the lock, there is no unlock button. You’re cooked.

AND MS SUCKS!

However, those little brained fools from Microsoft say you should go to the laptop and sign in with the root username and password.

Surprise: during Windows install it made you use your microsoft account for a computer user. This creates a whole new world of problems inside the operating system files.

They deploy a fricking update that ruins the PIN and the PIN vault in your computer. You can’t deactivate the fucking Hello signing. Windows Hello.

When you have to enter username and password: though shit! There is no username and password. Two profiles get displayed. Click on any of them: and you will see that only a “Sign In” button appears. Click on it, and your screen will get locked.

Keep repeating this loop to infinity and nothing ever happens.

So the only real way to stop this madness is to begin hacking your instalation of Windows.

A few command prompts to delete the registries that keep Windows Hello active.

Some paths in the registries to delete or modify or change permissions, so that Windows can no longer verify with the cloud account. You basically break the connection.

That will also keep windows from locking your laptop again from the cloud.

A bit more hacking, and you’ll also be able to force windows to display the fields for username and password.

Tons of hours of work to get all this done, depending on Windows 11 versions and update packs.

But if you DO want to use your computer again without losing all your files, hacking your own laptop is the way to go, because Microsoft hates the market and the clients.

can’t believe i wasted 7 hours on this

• tried tons of things in the command prompt
• then in the regedit
• then did 2x re-installs of Windows.
• it still wouldn’t allow me to place username and password to start using windows

finally done with it. still: it uninstalled tens of software I had on the laptop, so have fun wasting EVEN more time chasing all that down and doing re-installs.

Fucking happy I bought a mac again.

My laptop from ASUS TUF is amazing. The only problems I ever have are related to that retarded Windows operating system. FFS.

So some stupid update over the weekend, while i didn’t have the laptop with me. Windows casually starts the computer and does the update without the user’s permission, because it’s a bag of shit.

But I’ve gotten quite used to that abuse from Windows by now.

However, this time around I can’t even fucking login to it to start doing my work. Because the latest update blew up the fricking PIN. Can’t use the PIN no more, and since the update there is ZERO other option for logging in.

Forgot PIN option doesn’t do shit, either.

It’s so unbelievable.

I went from my Mac to the microsoft account. I found my laptop and locked it down. It was like a comedy show of bugs and things that just don’t make sense. After a while, it managed to lock down the laptop AND GUESS WHAT: — it didn’t have any options to UNLOCK afterwards :))

Pure comedy.

Microsoft is shit.

Safe mode is supposed to help you get inside windows without needing the PIN. guess what? – doesn’t work either with the latest update.

FML.

solve

C:
cd \Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft

takeown /f NGC /r /d y

icacls NGC /grant administrators:F /t

rd /s /q NGC

exit

^^ open your computer with CommandPrompt

type those things into the command line, and you will get rid of the PIN.
this will make it give you other sign in options

That's how you'll log into windows without PIN.