Default to PIN for UAC

paz · 29 Oct 2023

Apologies for replying to an old thread, but this was a rabbit hole I went down and I found a solution, and this is the thread that comes up first on Google, so for others trying to do this..

You can, but you need to disable the Password as the login provider. I got this by seeing another thread about disabling Smart Card as the default provider and the only solution was to just disable smart card login altogether.

Registry key I used:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\Credential Providers\{60b78e88-ead8-445c-9cfd-0b87f74ea6cd}]
@="PasswordProvider"
"Disabled"=dword:00000001

Try3 · 29 Oct 2023

paz,

Excellent.
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Try3 · 29 Oct 2023

Paz,

Brink has found a potentially undesirable side-effect.

Brink said:

I did some playing with this, but this will completely disable the password sign-in option for all local accounts on the PC.

If the local account doesn't have another sign-in option set up other than password, then that local account will no longer be available on the Sign-in screen.

This does not affect the password sign in option for Microsoft accounts.

And your idea did do some good:-

Brink said:

It did lead to this below and more soon to enable/disable other sign-in options that may be useful to some.
Enable or Disable Facial Recognition Sign-in Option in Windows 11 Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum

I've shown his whole posts here because I think that section of the forum has limited access.

I thought you'd like to know.

All the best,
Denis

paz · 29 Oct 2023

At first I thought it would be OK as I could use my PIN for everything which is fine, but if in any case you need to enter a password it will no longer work. This is also the case for things like connecting to an RDS server or SMB share without using your saved credentials, which I do regularly, so I have had to disable it and live with either an extra click for the PIN or entering the password.

Glad it assisted with some other issues though!