Enable or Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10  

Eagle51 said:

Hey Spokey,
I think what your looking for is in Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen and at the bottom Screen Saver Settings. Uncheck the on resume display lock screen.

Doesn't work. That setting is clear. But to be sure, I just checked it, rebooted, unchecked it, rebooted. I have the power settings set to turn off the display after 1 minute (that short for testing purposes). After a minute, the display goes off. For a while I can swipe the touchpad and the display comes back on. But around the 2 minute mark (1 minute to turn off the display and 1 more minute with it off) when I swipe the touchpad, I have to log on again. And I think it is the lock screen I'm seeing.

Thanks Brink;

That seems to have done it although I'm still testing to be sure.

The thing is that it should never be going to sleep. The basic settings are below. Any thoughts on why a wakeup setting affects this/

" I still get what I think is the lock screen, but most important the stupid thing makes me log on again."

Brink's reg file DOES work. You may be confusing the Lock screen which the one with the big Time and Date in the lower L corner with the Log-in screen which is where you enter your password. The tutorial is designed to by pass the Lock screen only.

mrgeek said:

" I still get what I think is the lock screen, but most important the stupid thing makes me log on again."

Brink's reg file DOES work. You may be confusing the Lock screen which the one with the big Time and Date in the lower L corner with the Log-in screen which is where you enter your password. The tutorial is designed to by pass the Lock screen only.

Brink's suggestion in #261 seems to be working. I didn't have the logon/startup issue because I auto logon. I just have/had the problem after the screen was turned off after inactivity.

I mostly have win7 & 8.1 machines but do have another desktop that was upgraded to win 10 during the free period (the problem was a win 10 laptop bought with that OS). Just applied the reg file to show the wakeup power setting and it had defaulted to 'no'. It has the same turn off display and never sleep. That machine starts itself in the morning and shuts itself down at night and never has any sleep or logon problem.

I used the registry file and it doesn't seem to work for me. My machine still isn't locking.

to be clear, I want my machine to require a password after 20 minutes of inactivity but I don't want to have a screensaver? Is that what this fix was supposed to do?

Thanks, the others were set per the first tutorial but I didn't have the "On resume, display logon screen" checked from the second tutorial. I hope that fixes it.