{"id":17465,"date":"2021-12-16T03:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T03:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=17465"},"modified":"2021-12-16T03:36:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T03:36:42","slug":"windows-hello-pin-remove-button-greyed-out-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/windows-hello-pin-remove-button-greyed-out-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Windows Hello PIN Remove Button Greyed out in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t remove Windows Hello PIN and the &#8220;Remove&#8221; button is greyed out? By default, the passwordless option is enabled in Windows 11 so you can log into your Microsoft account with a PIN code. However, when you try to remove the PIN sign-in option, you&#8217;ll find the &#8220;Remove&#8221; option is greyed out. To fix this issue, you need to use the following methods to turn off passwordless sign-in option on Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/windows-pin-remove-greyed-out.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/windows-pin-remove-greyed-out.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/windows-pin-remove-greyed-out-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Disable Passwordless Sign-in on Windows 11 via Settings App<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/common-ways-to-open-settings-app-in-windows-11\/\">Open the Settings app<\/a> and navigate to <strong>Accounts<\/strong> -> <strong>Sign-in option<\/strong>. On the right side, scroll down to the &#8220;Additional settings&#8221; section, Turn Off the toggle switch next to &#8220;<strong>For improved security, only allow Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts on this device<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disable-passwordless-for-microsoft-account.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disable-passwordless-for-microsoft-account.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disable-passwordless-for-microsoft-account-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close the Settings app and then open it again, you&#8217;ll find the option of removing Windows Hello PIN is clickable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Disable Passwordless Sign-in on Windows 11 via Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10\/\">Open Registry Editor<\/a> and browse to: <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\PasswordLess\\Device<\/code>. On the right pane, double-click the DWORD value <strong>DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion.png 594w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion-300x130.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Change its value data from 2 to 0. Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/edit-dword-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/edit-dword-1.png 331w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/edit-dword-1-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close Registry Editor. Open the Settings app and go to <strong>Accounts<\/strong> -> <strong>Sign-in option<\/strong>. Expand the <strong>PIN (Windows Hello)<\/strong> section and the Remove button will no longer be greyed out.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t remove Windows Hello PIN and the &#8220;Remove&#8221; button is greyed out? By default, the passwordless option is enabled in Windows 11 so you can log into your Microsoft account with a PIN code. However, when you try to remove the PIN sign-in option, you&#8217;ll find the &#8220;Remove&#8221; option is greyed out. To fix this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[4757,4759,4758],"class_list":["post-17465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-windows-11-passwordless-sign-in","tag-windows-11-remove-pin-greyed-out","tag-windows-hello-pin-remove-greyed-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17477,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions\/17477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}