![]() Extract the contents of the downloaded ZIP file to a folder.Download disable-lockscreen-windows-10.zip to your PC.Change its property status to Enabled and click OK to save the settings.Double-click on Do not display the lock screen.In the Group Policy Editor, select Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Control Panel → Personalization.This will launch the Group Policy Editor. In the Run dialog, type gpedit and press Enter.Give the newly create value name NoLockScreen and change its value to 1.Right-click on the right-side pane and select New → Dword (32-bit) Value. ![]() In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization.In the Run dialog, type regedit and press Enter.Fortunately there are more than one ways to disable the lockscreen in Windows 10: Method 1: Using Registry Editor You have to press a key or click a mouse button to reach the sign-in screen where you can enter your username and password to finally login to your Windows account.įor first few weeks, it looks nice but after a while people get tired of this useless extra step just to get to the sign-in screen. Post navigation ← Microsoft UE-V 2.In a fresh installation of Windows 10, you are first taken to a lock screen that displays a pretty picture, the time, notifications from various apps and so on. This entry was posted in IT and tagged desktop engineering, Microsoft, troubleshooting, Windows 10 on Augby Oliver Baty. A Google search turned up a few other people who have had problems at the lock screen, and there are a number of reports of similar problems going back a few versions of Windows. I posted the problem to Microsoft’s Windows Feedback on. Įven if the Windows.UI.Logon.pri is the cause of the LogonUI.exe crashes, a bad file seems like something that the LogonUI process should tolerate. I’ll test with the default wallpaper image, and with my desired wallpaper image repacked using the PowerShell script at. pri file generated by the utility may be responsible for lock screen problems). The only other particular thing about my setup is that I’m generating my own Windows.UI.Logon.pri wallpaper file using the utility discussed at: (although revisiting this page now indicates that. The problem exists on physical hardware as well as in a VMware Workstation 11 virtual machine, so I’m confident that it is not a driver-related issue. Hitting the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination at the black screen launches a new LogonUI.exe process, the wallpaper image loads, and I’m taken to the logon page where I can enter my username and password and log on. Watching the LogonUI.exe process with Sysinternals Procmon shows that the process crashes when the computer is locked, causing the screen to go black. When the computer is locked (for example, by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del and selecting the Lock option) and the screen goes black, the following event is written to the Application event log:įaulting application name: LogonUI.exe, version: 0.16384, time stamp: 0x559f398cįaulting module name: Windows.UI.Xaml.dll, version: 0.16412, time stamp: 0x55b9a054įaulting application start time: 0x01d0d15d56f2c0bfįaulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogonUI.exeįaulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.Xaml.dll Deleting the DisableCAD value avoids the problem, however, it also removes the benefit of the secure logon screen. In both cases, the behavior was/is only evident when the registry value HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableCAD is set to 0 (enforcing the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen). Prior to KB3081424, I experienced a different problem at the Ctrl+Alt+Delete screen, where the lock screen wallpaper configured via Group Policy was not applied and the background was instead a solid blue color. I’ve encountered a problem with Windows 10 Enterprise with Cumulative Update for Windows 10: Aug(KB3081424) applied, where the secure logon screen is completely black instead of displaying the Ctrl+Alt+Delete message, clock, background wallpaper, etc. ![]() In the meantime, I’ve decided to just eliminate the “Hero” wallpaper in favor of a solid color. Neither the utility nor the PowerShell script referenced below create a Windows.UI.Logon.pri file that is acceptable to Windows. ![]() Update : I’ve determined that the problem is due to my attempts at creating a custom Windows.UI.Logon.pri file to display a logon screen background image. ![]()
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