Windows 10: I forgot the pin to unlock my laptop and the fingerprint reader won’t help when I try using...

My question is regarding a different windows account that I have on my laptop. I forgot the password to unlock it and the laptop only shows “pin entered incorrectly too many times”. Please help!!

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Fingerprint reader inop, forgot pw

The fingerprint reader seems to have entered bad data and now my HP laptop (Windows 10) will only accept a password or PIN. We cannot remember either the PW or PIN. Is there a way to unlock the machine?

 

Forgot laptop pin

I couldn't unlock my laptop with the fingerprint. I entered the PIN, but it says it's wrong. However, I get the option of 'forgot PIN.' If I choose that, the Microsoft account sign-in page pops up. My question is, will I be able to unlock my laptop this way without losing my files (photos, PDFs, etc.)? I don't use the laptop that much, so I have little knowledge about these things. I don't want to lose my files. Kindly guide me.

 

Prefer Fingerprint Reader use Password Instead of PIN


I just purchased a modest Toshiba laptop to replace my five year old HP laptop. Being new to W10, I am not impressed with and do not trust the use of a PIN rather than a sophisticated password.

The USB reader I bought for the Toshiba is an Eikon using Authentec driver. I dislike the apparent limitation of Windows Hello to only associate the fingerprint reader with the PIN. But my real issue is that this prevents my using the FP reader to also open my password program.

On my HP laptop, I have this capability with SimplePass. I actually attempted to install HP's SimplePass on the Toshiba, but it would not install.

Unless I'm overlooking a way to do this with W10, I'm looking for a utility that will store password(s) for use by the FP reader both for logon and accessing, at the minimum, my password program.

I do not wish to change the password for my password program to the Hello PIN just to achieve the dual function.

Any enlightenment and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike