Page 909 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

Note

Here again, you still have to create a regular text password for your account—as a backup method,
if nothing else.

1. Open → → Accounts. Choose “Sign-in options.”

You see the screen shown in Figure 18-5.

2. Under PIN, select Add. Enter your current typed password to
prove that you’re you, and hit OK.

Now make up a four-digit PIN (personal identification number):
the last four digits of your mom’s phone number, the month and
year of your birthday—whatever.

3. Enter your chosen PIN into both boxes, and then hit Finish.

Next time you sign in, you’ll be able to use your PIN instead of a password
(Figure 18-7). You don’t even have to press Enter; after you type the fourth
digit, bam—you’re signed in.

Note

You’ll also be offered a link that says “Sign-in options” (Figure 18-7). When you choose that,
you’re offered icons that represent all the sign-in options you’ve created so far: picture password,
PIN, Windows Hello biometric, and regular typed password. So if you can’t get in one way, you
can try a different method.