Windows 10: Face - Turn On or Off Automatically Unlock Screen in Windows 10

How to: Face - Turn On or Off Automatically Unlock Screen in Windows 10


Information face, or eye recognition.

Windows Hello, greets you by name and with a smile, letting you sign in without a password and providing instant, more secure access to your Windows 10 devices. Windows Hello introduces system support for biometric authentication – using your face, iris, or fingerprint to unlock your devices – with technology that is much safer than traditional passwords. You– uniquely you– plus your device are the keys to your Windows experience, apps, data and even websites and services – not a random assortment of letters and numbers that are easily forgotten, hacked, or written down and pinned to a bulletin board. Modern sensors recognize your unique personal characteristics to sign-you-in on a supporting Windows 10 device.

After you set up your face with Windows Hello, you can turn on or off to automatically unlock the lock screen when Windows Hello recognizes your face to sign in with.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off to automatically dismiss the lock screen if Windows Hello recognizes your face in Windows 10.

CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Turn On or Off Automatically Dismiss Lock Screen when Face is Recognized in Settings
• Option Two: To Turn On or Off Automatically Dismiss Lock Screen when Face is Recognized in Registry Editor

OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off Automatically Dismiss Lock Screen when Face is Recognized in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Accounts icon.

2. Click/tap on Sign-in options on the left side, and turn on or off Automatically dismiss the lock screen if we recognize your face for what you want under Face under Windows Hello on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.









OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off Automatically Dismiss Lock Screen when Face is Recognized in Registry Editor


Note You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to do this option.

1. Open a command prompt, copy and paste the command below, and press Enter.
*Arrow wmic useraccount list brief
2. Make note of the SID (ex: S-1-5-21-3805314223-219034569-1648957350-1001) for the user account (ex: Brink) you want to turn on or off automatically unlock screen when face is recognized. You will need to the SID in step 6 below. (see screenshot below)



3. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type regedit, and click/tap on OK to open Registry Editor.

4. If prompted by UAC, click/tap on Yes.

5. In Registry Editor, browse to the location below. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\FaceLogon




6. Under the FaceLogon key, look for a subkey with the same name as the SID from step 2 above, and open it. (see screenshot below step 5)


Note If there isn't a key for the SID, then it means this user account did not set up a face in Windows Hello first.

7. In the right pane of the SID key (ex: S-1-5-21-3805314223-219034569-1648957350-1001), double click/tap on the AutoDismissOn DWORD to modify it. (see screenshot below step 5)

8. Do step 9 (on) or step 10 (off) below for what you want to do.


9. To Turn On Automatically Dismiss Lock Screen when Face is Recognized
A) Type 1, click/tap on OK, and go to step 11 below. (see screenshot below)





10. To Turn Off Automatically Dismiss Lock Screen when Face is Recognized
A) Type 0, click/tap on OK, and go to step 11 below. (see screenshot below)




11. You can now close Registry Editor if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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Hello RLAR, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Since you want to have an option to sign in with PIN or Face, you could use the tutorial below to make sure Automatically dismiss the lock screen if we recognize your face is turned off.

*Arrow Face - Turn On or Off Automatically Unlock Screen in Windows 10 Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials

While on your sign-in screen, you can click tap on the Sign-in options link to be able to select which option you want to use. Usually, the last option you used is what is selected by default next time.

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Hello Kol12, *Smile

Do you have the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box checked in netplwiz?

If you use Windows Hello face, double check to make sure you have turned off Automatically dismiss the lock screen if we recognize your face.

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Thnx. I did try turning off the "Automatically dismiss the lock screen if we recognize your face" button. (That wording is a little different then your screen is showing.) When I restarted my computer, the face recognition mode came up with a dismiss comment, red lights flashing and it just sat there. Eventually it said welcome, but then the screen went black...for about 10 minutes. I thought I was dead in the water. So kinda chicken to try it again. And chicken to attempt step 2....way out of my league. Maybe under face recognition, above the turn on/off auto face button, I should select "remove," and it would defaut to my pin? Seems odd that something that should be so simple isn't.

 

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Hi Brink,

I do have a tick in Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer. I have never un-ticked it before.

It must have been my imagination? After another 2-3 restarts since yesterday the admin account is not automatically logging in. Maybe strange things like this happen sometimes?