{"id":7098,"date":"2016-06-22T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2016-06-22T08:26:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:26:44","slug":"fix-windows-10-pin-error-something-went-wrong-try-again-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-windows-10-pin-error-something-went-wrong-try-again-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Windows 10 PIN Error: “Something went wrong. Try again later”"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you try to change a PIN or add a PIN logon in Windows 10, you might get the error message “Something went wrong. Try again later.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

\"something-went-wrong\"<\/p>\n

By default, Windows 10 stores the PIN logon credentials in the directory C:\\Windows\\ServiceProfiles\\LocalService\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\NGC<\/strong>. If the NGC<\/em> folder is corrupt, the system will refuse you to change PIN. While you’ll not be allowed to add\/create a PIN when the NGC<\/em> folder is missing.<\/p>\n

To fix the error “Something went wrong. Try again later.<\/em>” and get PIN logon back to work, you have to delete all the contents of the NGC<\/em> folder. Follow these steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Before getting started, you need to configure Windows to show hidden files<\/a> as the AppData<\/em> folder is hidden by default.<\/li>\n
  2. Open File Explorer and browse to the directory: C:\\Windows\\ServiceProfiles\\LocalService\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\NGC<\/b>. You will be denied permission to access this folder, so you need to take ownership of the NGC<\/em> folder, and this can be done easily with the freeware TakeOwnershipPro<\/a>\n

    \"take-ownership-NGC\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. After taking ownership, delete all subfolders and files under the NGC<\/em> folder. But do NOT<\/strong> delete the NGC<\/em> folder itself.\n

    \"del-pin-logon-location\"<\/p>\n

    Instead, if the NGC<\/em> folder doesn’t exist, you need to create an empty folder and named it NGC<\/em>.\n<\/li>\n

  4. Now open the Windows 10 Settings app -> Accounts -> Sign-in options, your previous PIN logon should have been erased and you can create a new PIN, and then change PIN normally. Everything is working fine, consequently the error of “Something went wrong. Try again later.<\/em>” would disappear as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When you try to change a PIN or add a PIN logon in Windows 10, you might get the error message “Something went wrong. Try again later.” By default, Windows 10 stores the PIN logon credentials in the directory C:\\Windows\\ServiceProfiles\\LocalService\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\NGC. If the NGC folder is corrupt, the system will refuse you to change PIN. While […]<\/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],"tags":[2770,2771,2772,2773],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-add-pin-windows-10-something-went-wrong","tag-change-pin-windows-10-something-went-wrong","tag-unable-change-pin-error","tag-windows-10-pin-something-went-wrong-try-again-later"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","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=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7108,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}