Windows 10 Lock Screen - How To Enable Or Disable, Remove Completely And Perform Other Actions

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Complete Windows 10 lock screen customization

By turning on the computer, the user plans to do a lot of things. Therefore, it is important for him to quickly get all the necessary information from various applications even before entering the system. The Windows 10 lock screen will help provide this information, as well as provide primary protection for your computer.

Content

• 1 What is Windows 10 lock screen

• 2 How to customize the Windows 10 lock screen

  • 2.1 Enabling the lock screen

    2.1.1 Video: Customize your lock screen and personalize

  • 2.2 Change the image

    2.2.1 Enabling Windows Highlights

  • 2.3 Adding Apps to Display
  • 2.4 Setting automatic blocking

  • 2.5 Disable the lock screen

    • 2.5.1 Video: How to Disable the Lock Screen
    • 2.5.2 Removing the lock screen
• 3 Customizing the lock screen: possible problems and solutions
• 4 Programs to customize and change the lock screen

What is Windows 10 lock screen

When you start the operating system, the first thing you see is the lock screen. This is a window where you can get some information from applications against a beautiful background. The lock window has the following features:

• shows time, weather and other information from applications; what information will be displayed in this window depends on the specific settings;
• provides primary protection of the system - to enter, you must enter a password in the lock window;
• allows you to customize the wallpaper of the window itself, including making an automatic change of images; a bright and nice-looking picture on the lock screen will help the user to tune in to a pleasant working day.

The lock screen is present initially in every Windows 10 system. Therefore, the only question is how to set it up correctly.

How to customize the Windows 10 lock screen

The lock screen has quite flexible settings that allow you to make it comfortable to work with, and also have good tools for customizing its appearance. And, of course, you can simply turn off the lock screen if necessary.

Turn on the lock screen

The lock screen in Windows 10 is always on by default. You can enable the lock screen pattern as follows:

1. Right click on the desktop and go to personalization settings.

   

   Select "Personalization" in the context menu of the desktop

2. Select the "Lock Screen" settings tab to see all the basic settings.

3. Move the slider next to Show lock screen wallpaper on login screen to On.

   

   Make sure the display lock screen wallpaper is turned on

After completing these steps, the lock screen will work as expected and the wallpaper will return to it.

Video: customize your lock screen and personalize

Image change

You can install absolutely any images on your lock screen. Someone sets there photographs of loved ones, while others put beautiful views of nature. And this setting is performed in the following way:

1. Navigate to the Personalization Settings menu via Windows Options.

   

   Go to the personalization menu via Windows settings

2. Go to the lock screen settings section and click “Browse” under the row of pictures.

   

   Click on the "Browse" button to select an image for the lock screen

3. Select one or several photos (if you select several, they will be changed automatically) and press "Select pictures" to confirm the action.

   

   Highlight the required image and click "Select Image"

4. Your image will appear in the lock screen wallpaper preview area.

   

   You can see how the selected image will look as a background in the preview window

5. You can also set the dynamic change of pictures. To do this, in the drop-down list of the "Background" item, select the line "Slideshow".

   

   Select "Slideshow" as the type of background image so that the pictures are constantly changing one another

6. The Slideshow mode has a number of additional settings. To see them, click on the corresponding line.

   

   Select "Advanced Slideshow Options" to customize the image sequence

7. In the advanced parameters, you can change the settings based on your interests and needs. After you save your changes, the wallpaper or pattern settings are complete.

   

   Configure slideshow settings in the advanced settings window

You can add an image to the lock screen in another way without opening the personalization settings. For this:

1. Open the picture with a standard image viewer.
2. In the program menu, select "Install as", then left-click on the "Install on lock screen" option.

In the menu of any image viewer, you can select the option to set the pattern to the lock screen

Enabling Windows Highlights

There is another interesting feature associated with the lock screen. It's Windows Highlights or Windows spotlight. When this option is activated, pictures on the lock screen will be selected automatically from Microsoft servers. The option can be enabled as follows:

1. Go to personalization settings and select the "Lock screen" section.

2. Where you previously selected Slideshow, now select the Windows Highlights option.

   

   You can turn on Windows spotlight in your lock screen settings

Now the pictures will change every time you turn on the computer and are selected by an intelligent system for analyzing your work at the device.

Adding display apps

The lock screen allows you to add a lot of applications - it can display the time, weather, exchange rates and much more. Setting up this feature is easy:

1. In the same lock screen settings menu, scroll down the page. There you will see apps to display on the lock screen. Click on any plus icon to add the desired application.

   

   Click on the plus sign to add a new app to the lock screen

2. When you click on the plus icon, a list of all possible applications to display will open. Left-click on the required application to add it to the lock screen.

   

   Select an app to add to your lock screen

The next time you see the lock screen, the new app will already be displayed on it.

Setting automatic blocking

The automatic lock function is that after a certain period of inactivity of the computer, the lock screen is displayed. Automatic blocking is configured as follows:

1. In the Lock Screen section of Windows Settings, open Screen Saver Settings.

   

   In the "Lock screen" select "Screen saver options"

2. Check the box next to "Start at login screen". This means the computer will return to the lock screen after waiting. The waiting time can also be configured here.

   

   In the screen saver settings, set the time after which the lock screen should turn on

3. Save the settings changes. Now, when "waking up" from inactivity, the computer will return to the lock screen.

Disable the lock screen

Disabling the lock screen completely isn't easy. There are 2 ways to do this.

First, let's look at how to disable the lock screen using the Group Policy Editor:

1. Press the Win + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run window. Then enter the gpedit.msc command and click OK.

   

   Enter the command gpedit.msc in the Run window

2. Open the folders "Computer Configuration", "Administrative Templates", "Control Panel", "Personalization" one by one.

3. On the right side of the window, select the setting to prevent the display of the lock screen.

   

   Find the option "Prevent displaying the lock screen" in the Group Policy Editor window

4. Turn on the blocking of the display of the lock screen using the corresponding marker.

   

   Enable the option to prevent the display of the lock screen

5. After restarting your computer, you should be able to verify that the lock screen no longer appears.

The second way to disable the lock screen is through the Registry Editor. Always remember that only experienced users should be allowed to make changes to the registry. You should not open the Registry Editor if you are unsure of your knowledge, as changes to the registry can damage your computer. To turn off the lock screen, you need to take the following steps:

1. Open a Run window, but this time type regedit and click OK.

   

   Enter the command regedit in the Run window and confirm the entry

2. In the registry editor, go to the path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Policies - Microsoft - Windows - Personalization. Create a 32 bit parameter.

   

   Create a parameter named NoLockScreen in Registry Editor

3. Set the name to NoLockScreen and set the value to hexadecimal unit.

   

   Specify unit as value when creating parameter

4. After restarting the computer, the lock screen will disappear completely.

If you need to get your lock screen back, just turn off the Group Policy service you turned on earlier. If you performed the shutdown via the registry, you need to delete the parameter you created.

Video: how to turn off the lock screen

Removing the lock screen

If disabling the lock screen is not entirely satisfying, you can remove it completely from your computer. To do this, just delete the application that is responsible for it. Follow path C: - Windows - SystemApps and delete the Microsoft. LockApp_cw5n1h2txyewy folder.

You can simply delete the application folder to make it stop working

Customizing the lock screen: possible problems and solutions

Let's take a look at the problems you may have when customizing your lock screen:

• the background on the lock screen does not change - a fairly common problem. It is caused by a crooked system update and has already been fixed in the latest version of Windows. Hence, if you encounter this problem, just update your Windows 10 operating system to the latest version;

• there is no image on the lock screen - this bug occurs when some settings conflict. In such a situation, the user needs:

  • go to the performance settings ("Control Panel" - "All elements of the control panel" - "System" - "Advanced system settings" - "Performance");

  • enable the item "Animation when minimizing and maximizing windows";

    

    Turn on minimizing window animations to fix the lock screen background issue

• it is impossible to customize the computer lock screen - this happens if your operating system is not activated, therefore personalization settings are not available. There is only one way out - to activate the system.

Programs for customizing and changing the lock screen

There are several programs for customizing your lock screen. Usually they are used either to turn off the screen itself, or to adjust the background image. Let's highlight some of them:

• Windows 10 Logon Background Changer is a program that allows you to change the background of your lock screen. It works without installation on a computer and is very easy to use (there is a version in Russian). It is enough to select a picture and the background image will be changed;

  

  Windows 10 Logon Background Changer is a simple and intuitive program to change the background of the lock screen

• Windows 10 Login Screen Background Changer - like the previous one, this program is designed exclusively for changing the picture on the lock screen. The interface of the program is slightly nicer, but only supports English;

  

  In Windows 10 Login Screen Background Changer, you can change the background of the login screen

• Winaero Tweaker is a useful program for tweaking the operating system. In addition to many useful settings, it contains a function to disable blocking, which is very convenient if you do not want to do this through the registry or the Group Policy Editor. In the program, to turn off the lock screen, just press one button;

  

  Winaero Tweaker will allow you to disable the lock screen if needed

• Lockscreen as wallpaper - this program only indirectly touches the lock screen. Above we mentioned Windows spotlight - a setting that allows you to upload an image to the lock screen from Microsoft servers. Lockscreen as wallpaper will allow you to use these images for the Windows desktop as well. This way, a new image will always appear on your desktop.

  

  Lockscreen as wallpaper adapts one of the features of the lock screen to the desktop

Customizing the lock screen will not only protect the system from penetration of unauthorized persons, but also give a unique and pleasing look to the screen. The aesthetic part is essential for effective work. Now you know how to make any lock screen settings and also disable it if necessary.