To protect your computer from unauthorized access, Windows employs several security features, and the first one you would usually encounter is the Windows login. In Windows 11 and Windows 10, ...

We weren’t able to set up your PIN. Sometimes it helps to try again or you can skip for now and do this later. For more information on errors during PIN setup: https://aka.ms/PINErrors For additional ...

We set a PIN while setting up our PC. The PIN lets us access the PC and do our work. However, we may sometimes see errors with the PIN. If you see the “Your PIN is ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: My question is regarding Windows Hello, which seems to be required to use the Microsoft Store. I do not have a ...

Why grapple with passwords and PINs to sign into Windows when you can more easily turn to facial or fingerprint recognition? Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to ...

Modern Windows PCs often include some kind of biometric hardware, mainly in the form of facial recognition (using infrared cameras) or fingerprint scanning. Both of these features let you use Windows ...

If you have a Windows Hello-compatible device with facial recognition, such as the Surface Pro 11 or a third-party webcam with an IR scanner, you might encounter a problem with biometric ...

Microsoft's Windows Hello biometric, PIN, and hardware authentication system is slowly growing in popularity, according to a new report from Microsoft. For those unaware, Windows Hello allows users to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Just when you thought Microsoft couldn’t get things any worse ...