On computer wakeup, how do go straight to my desktop? stop Lock screen

Every morning when I press a key to wake my computer up, I then have to click 2 more times to get off the screen the MS shows me before I can get to my desktop. I think it's called the Lock screen. But it's always some picture with a message up top that says "Like what you see?". When I click on the picture, it then takes me to the Sign On screen. I have no user name an pword. I just hit Sign On and it takes me to my desktop. I don't want to see these pictures every morning and I don't want to sign on to anything. I just want to go straight to my desktop without any clicking. This used to be so easy to do with previous versions of Windows, but I sure can't figure it out now. I don't want to have to put any password on my computer either. I think I have the Lock screen turned off. Thanks for any help.

Hmm. That has been bugging me also and @Edwin answer sort of works.

I use my fingerprint to wake my laptop and all it does is take me to the lock screen. Then I have to use my fingerprint again to log on.

Why can't it just ask once?

I don't want it to never ask at all just not repeatedly for the same thing.

I have the same issue if PC is shut down - a fingerprint will start the PC but again it will stall at log on and require my PIN or fingerprint or something.

Windows 8 (on the same PC) would go straight to desktop with one swipe.

Edwin said:

Thanks, Edwin, but my sign in options look nothing like yours: https://i.imgur.com/npc3UXK.jpg

The command prompt option just tells me I don't have permission to do it, and I am the Administrator. I can't find the Local Group Policy thingie. And it appears I'd have to create and enter a password just to be able to turn it off.

You could try netplwiz

Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup

I think you will need to set a password and then use netplwiz to say that entering is not required on log-on. This doesn't affect resume from sleep or locking your session - just booting it up of a morning.

I tried the regedit files, too. It said they all copied to the registry when I ran them. But I woke up this morning to the same screen. The regedit thingies didn't work for me

UPDATE: option 1 worked for me. But I actually had to create and assign a password before I could get my problem solved. Seems silly to me I have to assign a password to turn it off and bypass this :) On the option with GPEDIT, it appears MS did a recent update that makes this one no longer work.

dlfagan1 said:

Seems silly to me I have to assign a password to turn it off and bypass this :)

Maybe.

It happens in other places too within the MS world. Remote Desktop will fall flat on it's underlying code if you are trying to sign onto a machine with no password. So does (for the same reason) Hyper-V and will not let you sign on to a VM for long.

"Password1" is a good password for this situation. It has a capital letter and a number and will pass most idiotic complexity checks. You could always add a "@" at the end if not.

Hopefully Windows Hello or some other biometric thing will take us away from this silly way of authenticating.