Bypass lock screen after sleep

New Dell Inspiron running W10 1607 HOME needs to have lock screen bypassed when awakening from sleep.
Virtually every suggested tweak in various forums has been tried. None succeeds.

Netplwiz: unchecking the "users must use" box
Power Options: there are no references to "password after sleep" as shown in some posts
Registry: adding "personalization" with DWord 1
There is no gpedit policy editor in this version of Windows

Has something been missed?

Hello borgus, :)

Turning off require sign-in on wakeup should do the trick for you.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...dows-10-a.html

All 3 options?

Odd. Do you have secure sign-in enabled?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...dows-10-a.html

Not only is it not enabled, this box doesn't even use a password.
Cold boot moves through the BIOS, lock/welcome screens and comes right to the desktop or metro interface without intervention.

I should mention that none of the options in your initial link are available in Win 10 Pro, on another machine.
Yet it wakes up to the desktop/metro directly from sleep with no sign of the lock/welcome screens. No PW is configured on that box as well.

This is no big deal, just an oddity. The object is to configure the machine as straightforwardly as possible for a new, novice user. Thanks.

Glad to hear it.

Brink said:

Glad to hear it.

This may be a bit belated, and maybe not relevant but worth noting for futute reference and may be worth updating tutorial.

If you use a local account and do not have a password, the box that you click 'never' to remove the password required on wakeup only is not visible!

Stupidly, you have to set a local password to see the box that allows you to not need the password! Then you can remove the local password again.