"Your organisation requires that you change your pin"

[merry bridge]

I am not part of an "organisation", yet my laptop says this every once in a while and it is incredibly annoying. I do have a school outlook account but it isn't the account that I use on my laptop, so I don't know what this "organisation" could be.

[cedar nest]

if the school account is on the system as a "workplace or school account" then they can enforce certain policies including pin/password changes as a way to protect their data that may be on your system

[merry bridge]

I just checked the accounts that I have logged in on the device and my school account isn't one of them

the school account is only logged in on outlook.com on chrome

the only other account that Im logged into on the device itself is my parents account and from my knowledge that account isn't a workplace account either, and plus they haven't told me about any similar issue

although that might be because their old pc still used windows 7 (they got a new pc with windows 10 recently)

[slim vine]

Is it listed under school and work accounts?

[merry bridge]

it is not

neither of these are my school account

[slim vine]

That's a different settings page

I mean the school and work account page

[merry bridge]

sorry

[merry bridge]

@slim vine sorry to ping you but do you have any idea what's going on with it

[slim vine]

do you have it set in outlook?

[merry bridge]

what set in outlook sorry?

[slim vine]

your school account

[merry bridge]

right

it's one of my outlook accounts that I currently have logged in on chrome

[slim vine]

hmm chrome shouldn't be able to change device policies

[merry bridge]

it shouldn't which is why I'm confused

plus, my school doesn't even have a rule like that

the school has never made us change passwords

[slim vine]

are you using home or pro?

[merry bridge]

the windows version?

[slim vine]

yup

[merry bridge]

home

[slim vine]

so no policy editor

[merry bridge]

is that bad 😭

[slim vine]

just means you probably can't change anything about the issue

[merry bridge]

so you have no idea why it's happening 😭

aaaaaa

i cant even find anything about it online

do you think this would work? it's on a thread from 2018 on win 10 but i could try right? @slim vine

sorry for the ping again

or it that only with pro 😭

[slim vine]

tbh no idea

[merry bridge]

i'll just try all the commands that these guys are saying ig

[slim vine]

I don't recommend running commands you don't understand, and at least set restore points before doing so^^

[merry bridge]

if i have a 64 bit OS i should change it to Win64 right

[merry bridge]

i know but i dont know what else to do

idek what a restore point is 😔

is it just this

[slim vine]

@spring patrol do you have an idea what to do here?

[merry bridge]

okay i made the restore point at least

[spring patrol]

People don't like to hear it when I say "Reinstall Windows" 😔

[merry bridge]

I already had to do that with my old laptop because it was barely running

it's a pain though, I just transferred files from said old laptop back to this one and it took a while

cuz i had to go back and fourth with my 16GB USB a bunch of times

but if it's the only option

[merry bridge]

@spring patrol you dont think something like this would work on win11?

either of you think this'll work?

@slim vine again sorry for the ping (I'm sure I'm annoying you a little bit) but what do you think about this? and would it be safe to run the commands that I've seen online if I have a restore point?

[spring patrol]

restore points are made before problems happen, if you made one now that won't help much

[spring patrol]

most suggestions involve regedit from what i've seen, if they work is another question

[merry bridge]

i ran wmic UserAccount in the command prompt and it said that all my accounts were local accounts so it's not that

yeah i just

have no idea