Since its launch, Windows has become the most widely used operating system worldwide; and the Windows 10 version has become the most modern that can be downloaded to any cell phone or tablet. This version offers many ways to protect each user’s login, including password, PIN and even a picture. But what to do if the error ‘your pin is no longer available’ appears?
This can be very complicated for many. Thinking about it, we ask ourselves this question: what to do if our PIN is blocked? Interesting, don’t you think?! But don’t worry, in this post I will show you how you can solve that little problem.
Failed to sign in with PIN
This is a typical error that is displayed when logging in using a PIN. A small error message appears on the screen, indicating that the PIN is no longer available; so what can we do? The answer is much simpler than you think.
The first thing you should do to solve this problem is to log in with an administrator account; after that, you will need to open a tab with windows file explorer or other alternatives to enter the view menu. We will quickly enter the show or hide section, you will have to check the hidden elements option.
After doing this, the hidden files can be seen on the hard drive, there, you will have to enter the file C:windowsServiceProfilelocalServicAppDataLocalMicrosoft. At this point, you will be able to enter the Ngc folder; this folder may be responsible for the annoying error that does not allow us to log in with our PIN.
How to fix error from Ngc folder?
Everything changes if this folder is damaged, due to system updates. If this is the case, it will not allow us to enter it, displaying the access denied message; So what can we do in that case? We just have to click with the right mouse button on the folder and we will click on properties.
Once this is displayed, we will check the security tab and then we will click on advanced options. Right there, the advanced security configuration session will open and the folder permissions will be shown.
Being in that tab, we will look at the owner option, this is at the top and we will click on the change option that is shown there. This option will send us directly to another tab, being in it, we will click on the object types option (we must be careful that all the options are selected)
After all this process, we must enter our user in the field that says target name. After having written our Windows user, we will click on check name and we will make sure that it is correct, then we will press accept.
Once these are done, it will automatically send us to the previous tab. Being there, the system should have already detected the change we made.
At the bottom, we will see a box that says: Replace owner in sub-containers and objects, (we must make sure that this box is selected). After all this process, we just have to press the accept button, so all the changes will be saved.
Once this is done, we will return to the Ngc folder, we should be able to enter without any problem. After accessing, we will have to delete all the files inside the folder and restart our computer.
When turning on, we will enter the account configuration and there we will change our PIN to avoid any margin of error, you can enable the expiration time. If we carry out all the steps to the letter, we will not have any problem accessing again with our PIN.
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