{"id":4840,"date":"2015-04-21T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2015-04-21T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:30:41","slug":"how-to-fix-picture-password-or-pin-sign-in-not-showing-at-windows-8-login-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-picture-password-or-pin-sign-in-not-showing-at-windows-8-login-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Picture Password or PIN Sign-in Not Showing At Windows 8 Login Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 8 introduces three new ways of authenticating yourself other than just using a traditional password. Now you can use a PIN code, Picture Password, as well as Microsoft account for logging into your computer. From the Windows login screen, you can switch between these sign-in options.<\/p>\n

\"sign-in-options\"<\/p>\n

However, in some situations you might not be allowed to create a PIN or Picture Password, or the sign-in options of PIN and Picture Password are not shown up at Windows login screen. If you’re facing such problem, here is how to fix it.<\/p>\n

1: Picture Password \/ PIN code disabled after joining a domain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Domain users are not allowed to sign in with a PIN by default. After joining to a domain or adding an Exchange email account, Picture Password or PIN authentication might be not available. However, you can easily turn on the Picture Password \/ PIN sign-in options by modifying the group policy:<\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + R keyboard combination to open a Run box, then type gpedit.msc<\/strong> and press Enter.<\/li>\n
  2. When the Group Policy editor opens, navigate to the following key:
    \nComputer Configuration\\Administrative Templates\\System\\Logon<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. On the right pane, double-click on the “Turn on PIN sign-in<\/strong>” option. Set it to Enabled<\/strong>, and click Apply.<\/li>\n
  4. Double-click on the “Turn off picture password sign-in<\/strong>” option and set it to Disabled<\/strong>. Click Apply.\n

    \"turn-off-picture-password\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. After restarting the system, you should be able to create and use Picture Password and PIN sign-in.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, this method will only be useful in a domain environment, in which case you could assign this group policy setting to an OU in Active Directory.<\/p>\n

    2: PIN sign-in option disabled after entering PIN Code wrong many times<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you have entered the wrong PIN too many times, the PIN sign-in option will immediately disappear from Windows logon screen. There is no other way to get the PIN code back to work, except that you can still login with other sign-in options, delete the existing PIN code and set a new one.<\/p>\n

    If you couldn’t also log on with your local \/ Microsoft account, this will essentially lock you out of your own computer. In this situation, you need to use some third-party boot disks such as PCUnlocker<\/a> to unlock your Windows local \/ Microsoft account.<\/p>\n

    3: Disable the policy “Do not display last user name”<\/strong><\/p>\n

    It is good practice to enable the local security policy “Interactive Logon: Do Not Display Last User Name<\/em>” in Windows. Despite this setting can improve the security of your computer, it will also cause the Picture Password and PIN sign-in options disappeared at the Windows logon screen.<\/p>\n

    To bring the Picture Password \/ PIN sign-in options back, you need to disable that security policy again. Here’s how:<\/p>\n

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    1. Press the Windows key + R keyboard combination to open a Run box, then type secpol.msc<\/strong> and press Enter.<\/li>\n
    2. In the left pane of Local Security Policy window, navigate to Local Policies -> Security Options<\/code>.<\/li>\n
    3. On the right hand side, double-click on the “Interactive Logon: Do Not Display Last User Name<\/strong>” setting. Now switch the radio button from Enabled<\/strong> to Disabled<\/strong>, then click Apply.\n

      \"dont-display-last-username\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    4. Restart your computer and the Picture Password \/ PIN code sign-in options will be back.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you’re running a version of Windows 8 that doesn’t come with the Group Policy Editor, use this registry trick to disable that security policy:<\/p>\n

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      1. Press the Windows key + R keyboard combination to open a Run box, then type regedit<\/strong> and press Enter.<\/li>\n
      2. In the left pane of Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:
        \nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System<\/code><\/li>\n
      3. On the right hand side, double-click on dontdisplaylastusername<\/strong> and then modify the value to 0.\n

        \"not-show-last-username\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      4. You also need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect. That’s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Windows 8 introduces three new ways of authenticating yourself other than just using a traditional password. Now you can use a PIN code, Picture Password, as well as Microsoft account for logging into your computer. From the Windows login screen, you can switch between these sign-in options. However, in some situations you might not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,39],"tags":[2120,2122,2121,2117,2125,2115,2124,2123,2116],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-8","tag-turn-off-windows-8-pin","tag-turn-on-windows-8-picture-password","tag-turn-on-windows-8-pin","tag-windows-8-picture-password-not-working","tag-windows-8-pin-disabled","tag-windows-8-pin-login-disappeared","tag-windows-8-pin-not-shown","tag-windows-8-pin-not-work","tag-windows-8-sign-in-options"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","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=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}