Windows 10: Enable or Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10

Hi Brink,

Thank you for the tutorial and the welcome. Finally got it sorted. Great site and I look forward to learning more about Win 10 and other issue, solutions and ideas.

Thanks again.
Ken

 

You're most welcome Ken. *Smile

 

Hi! Sorry for the bump. x)

I'm right now trying to enable my lock screen, but when download the registry and go through that stuff it still does not work. Any help?

 

Hello velraven, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

It'll only work if that policy is what disabled your lock screen.

Please give some more details about what you're seeing, and a screenshot of your lock screen settings to see if it may reveal anything.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...en-forums.html

 

Another excellent thread. I leave the lockscreen on my desktop pc, but disabled it on my tab to save resources and reduce start up times. Cheers OP

 

I'm glad it could help Niall, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

 

Disable lock screen is being ignored for me in 14271. Registry key is set to one, but I still have the Lock Screen.

 

Hello tracit99, *Smile

Double check the red warning box at the top of the tutorial to see if you may have secure sign-in enabled. If so, that would be why.

 

Hi Shawn,

No I do not have secure sign-in enabled. I have had Lock Screen disabled in last several builds and usually it has carried forward into new builds. But not for me in 14271.

 

Odd. Since you have Windows 10 Pro, test by toggling the group policy in OPTION ONE to "Not configured", apply, and back to "Enabled" to see if that may trigger it to be disabled again.

 

I toggled this setting in group policy to Not configured then clicked apply. I went back and enabled this policy and clicked apply. I am still seeing Lock Screen. I had this happen way back in build 10130 while others were having no problem. It eventually started disabling in subsequent builds. I have no idea what changed.

 

Do you have any other group policies enabled that may be overriding this one?

Group Policy Editor - Quickly View Enabled Policies in Windows - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Lock Screen is the only enabled policy. I went to Lock Screen in Settings and I have the message in red letters: Some settings are managed by your organization. However nothing is grayed out which is usually the case when the Lock Screen is disabled.

 

Just to verify, when you press the Win+L keys, do you still have the lock screen show instead of just the sign-in screen?

 

Yes, when I press the Win+L keys and when I restart my computer and when returning from sleep I get a Lock Screen. May be fine for those with phones or tablets, but for me it is plain annoying.