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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Sounds like a process that would be greatly simplified by adding a passkey...
E: I don't understand why I'm being downvoted. Adding a passkey would eliminate steps 2-7.
Would it? If I'm already a user on a local device, surely my parental code would suffice and turn a ludicrous process into a one (and a half) step process?
Either one would simplify the process, yes.
Except that Windows routinely breaks my passkeys :) Use it to login once, works great. Try again the next day, "Something went wrong". Now I can't use that 2FA; it never starts working again. Then I have extra steps of trying the passkey, having it fail, logging in on another device, removing the passkey, ....
Oof
Yeah I've been just refusing the prompts and using a standard 2FA code app instead.