At random times when I restart my laptop, after I’ve already entered my PIN on the lock screen, Windows starts up, but chooses to afflict me with an annoying “Making sure it’s you” pop-up that requires me to enter my PIN a second time, and then enter the password for my MS account, which I can’t remember, don’t want to remember, never use, and would have to dig out of an encrypted file which is on the computer that the pop-up is preventing me from using.
Remarkably, I don’t have to enter the PIN or password in order to get rid of this pop-up.
Instead, I can go into the task manager and hit “end task” for “Microsoft Account.” True, I have to keep hitting “end task” four or more times to get it to work, but eventually the pop-up goes away, and I can then use the computer without further ado.
This annoyance has cropped up only recently, and I’d like to prevent it from ever happening again. I have Win 10 Pro Version 21H2 Build 19044.2006 on both my desktop and my laptop, but the problem occurs only on the laptop. I haven’t changed any settings, and it’s hard to imagine that I did something to cause this.
I’d appreciate any and all advice on how to deal with this problem.
Thanks.
P.S. I must vent briefly. It boggles the mind to know that Microsoft designed a “security” measure that can be circumvented by simply using the task manager. Likewise, that this pop-up requires whoever has already entered my PIN at the lock screen to enter it a second time, as a matter of “security”, as though no unauthorized person would know how to enter it more than once. “Security” indeed.
