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Your Organization Requires a New PIN: 7 Tested Fixes
Reconfigure the existing policies to fix things
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Updated onOctober 7, 2024
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TheYour organization requires that you change your PINmessage appears on the sign-in screen when the PIN expiration limit is reached on a company’s PC. That said, some people with personal accounts report getting this error.
If that’s happening to you, you’re in luck. We figured out why this happens and laid out simple steps for fixing it.
How to turn off your organization requires you to change your PIN on Windows 11?
If none work, head to the fixes listed next.
1. Remove the account and PIN
In case theRemove PIN button is greyed out, reconfigure the security settings! Or if you findWindows PIN is no longer available, enable the CNG Key Isolation
2. Change the Local Group Policies
If you are running Windows 11 Home, manuallyinstall the Local Group Policy Editor.
3. Use the Command Prompt
4. Modify the Registry
While modifying the Registry Editor, you have the option to set the PIN expiration value between 1 and 730 days. If the previous solutions didn’t work, we recommend you choose the upper limit here.
5. Change the Local Users and Groups settings
6. Perform an in-place upgrade
An in-place upgrade takes a few hours to complete but is an effective measure against any sort of corruption, be it the system files or acorrupt user profile. And you don’t lose any files or stored apps in the process.
7. Reset the PC to factory settings
When nothing else works, the last option is toreset Windows 11 to factory settings. Make sure to wipe out all the data on the PC. If required, move the relevant files to a USB storage device as a backup.
Once done, set up the PC all over again, and this time, use a Microsoft account. Evencreating a local accountwill do! Using a local account will also help when youcan’t set up a PIN (Windows Hello).
If you still can’t get rid of theYour organization requires you to change your PINerror, find out how tobypass the Windows 11 login screenand access the PC without a password, but it shouldn’t come down to that for most users!
Remember, policies are important from the account sign-in point of view, and even slight misconfiguration can trigger errors, including cases whenWindows asks to set up a PIN. Make sure the policies are in order, and you are good to go!
This isn’t the only problem you can experience with the organization, and many encounteredSome settings are managed by your organizationmessage, but we tackled that issue in a different guide.
For any queries or to share more solutions with us, drop a comment below.
More about the topics:user accounts,Windows 11,Windows Hello
Kazim Ali Alvi
Windows Hardware Expert
Kazim has always been fond of technology, be it scrolling through the settings on his iPhone, Android device, or Windows PC. He’s specialized in hardware devices, always ready to remove a screw or two to find out the real cause of a problem.
Long-time Windows user, Kazim is ready to provide a solution for your every software & hardware error on Windows 11, Windows 10 and any previous iteration. He’s also one of our experts in Networking & Security.
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Kazim is specialized in hardware devices, always ready to remove a screw or two to find out the real cause of a problem.
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