Enable or Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10  

Brink said:

Correct.

You could try a repair install to see if it may sort it without losing anything.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade | Tutorials

I'm lost Brink, the tutorial you linked begins with explaining the difference between "Refresh" and "Reset" then never mentions either word again. I want to make sure I refresh and not reset, is either of them the same as "Repair"? Is that what an in place upgrade does, refresh??? If so, it would be good if somewhere it said, "Repair is the same as Refresh" or something like that.

But then the word "Refresh" links this tutorial Refresh Windows 10 | Tutorials which does say refresh, but then I'm wondering why you sent me to the one you linked if I'm supposed to use this one?

It also says later in the tutorial, "IF prompted to insert media", but I need it to load the newly prepared OS with stuff I removed before so I need to insert media for sure???

I just don't want to reformat and start from scratch so being extra careful how I proceed from here...

Edited to say... I paniced, you said this which is pretty clear...

The options above are great for what they are intended for, but you could also do a repair install of Windows 10 by performing an in-place upgrade without losing anything other than all installed Windows Updates.

Brink said:

Please let us know how it went.

Went great, loaded a new image with Lock App, photo editor and the store included and now they all work.

Thanks for all the help.

is this still working? the reg change is not working for me I still get the lockscreen and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\SessionData

AllowLockScreen DWORD

keeps going back to 1 :-(

Brink said:

Hello Mike,

Just to verify, do you have secure sign-in enabled? If so, it will prevent the lock screen from being disabled.

Enable or Disable Secure Sign-in with Ctrl+Alt+Delete in Windows 10

Secure sign in is unchecked


nvm! I think I understood wrong. It was disabled and now I only see the sign in screen :). Is there a way to disable both?

Step 4 works perfect (for Acer computers) me to disable the lock screen. I can report that you disable the sign in page both after you have put the computer on sleep and hibernate. Thanks a lot guys! :)