Windows 10: Enable or Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10

I must admit that I'm not sure why your lock screen is not disabled when you have everything set as it should be unless you may have some 3rd party all-in-one tweaking type program installed that may be overriding it.

 

Build 14279 just like 14271 I cannot disable the Lock Screen. Tried Group Policy Personalization, registry Personalization setting to nolockscreen=1 and restarting. Still I find no joy. Strange that I am the only user that seems to have this issue. In upgrading to 14271 and 14279 I started from 14267 and the Lock Screen was disabled. This setting has carried forward in all recent builds except the last two.

 

Tracit,

It is odd that you are not able to disable the lock screen. If you like, you could try a repair install to see if it may fix it for you.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

 

Shawn,

I tried the repair install after finding this issue in build 14271. It did not fix issue. Still getting lock screen. After searching the Internet I found two more users having this problem in build 14271.

 

I also have this issue in the last 2 builds. I saw in the insider feedback a comment that Microsoft is not allowing it to be disabled in the home or pro versions anymore. I think this is absolutely wrong. Brink, can you confirm this?

 

I think this stems from the Group Policy editor.






I have seen this before and it did not make sense because I was able to disable the Lock Screen in builds prior to 14271.

Edit: Screenshot from 14267. Perhaps MS getting ready to enforce this policy in future builds which has apparently happened in 14271 and forward builds. I can confirm that the Lock Screen can still be disabled in the Enterprise SKU build 14279.

 

Yep, starting in editions. *Sad

 

This really, really sucks.
Whats wrong with these guys, to release such an annoying crap...?
*Banghead

 

It appears to be related to the lock screen and sign-in screen sharing the same background image now, but I'm still not sure why they let some editions disable the lock screen and not others.

 

I take it you may not be able to disable the lock screen with the upcoming July 2016 update on some versions of windows 10. I guess the only other way to disable it, is to disable password login. My issue with the login screen, it sticks after 30 minutes of non-use. Another words the lock screen won't open, so you can't enter a password.

 

Hello Groze,

Yeah, starting in Windows 10 Insider build 14271, the lock screen can only be disabled for the Windows 10 Enterprise, Education, and Server editions.

 

Is there a workaround for this? I've got Win 10 Pro x64 build 14366. Can I upgrade to Enterprise or, Education somehow? Please, any help welcome.

 

Hello zil, *Smile

If it's just your account on the computer, you could set Windows to automatically sign in to your account at startup to avoid the lock screen at startup.

Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup

 

Yes I'm aware, and I think I'm gonna have to use this as a resort. But still I'd like to be able to use winkey + L sometimes.. *Sad

 

You will still be able to use Win+L to lock the computer, but you would still see the lock screen when you do.