How to disable or remove Windows 8’s Lock Screen step by step guide

After Installing Windows 8, frustrated from Windows 8’s Lock Screen wants to remove it. If you don’t like Windows 8’s Lock screen, you can bypass it or make it work more the way you want it to. Tired of being forced to click through Windows 8’s lock screen before you get to the Start screen? Right here, you’ll going to learn “How to disable or remove Windows 8’s Lock Screen step by step guide”. Boot your PC or wake it from sleep, and you go straight to Windows 8’s lock screen, which looks more like the screen you’d expect to see on your smartphone than on a PC. It tells you the time and date, and a variety of timely information—meetings taken from your calendar, updates from social networking sites, an indication of your power level, email notifications, and other similar information.

How to disable or remove Windows 8’s Lock Screen step by step guide
How to disable or remove Windows 8’s Lock Screen step by step guide

That’s all very nice, but if you’re on a PC, you probably want to get straight to work. And that means getting to the Start screen faster. If you like, you can bypass the Lock Screen. You also love to read HOW TO HACK FRIEND’S WHATSAPP? STEP BY STEP GUIDE 100% WORKING

Note : If you’re using a Windows 8 tablet, you may find the Lock screen more useful, since you may want to glance at your calendar or social networking sites while you’re on the go.

“How to disable or remove Windows 8’s Lock Screen step by step guide

To disable or remove Windows 8’s Lock Screen, you use the Local Policy Editor. Launch it by pressing Windows key+R to open the Run bar, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter or click OK. The Local Policy Editor launches. See below screenshot.

How to disable or remove Windows 8’s Lock Screen step by step guide
Local Group Policy Editor

Go to Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Control PanelPersonalization. Double-click the “Do not display the lock screen” entry, select Enabled, then press Enter or click OK.

Exit the Local Policy Editor, then reboot.

The new setting should take effect immediately. The next turn you reboot or wake your PC, you won’t see the Lock screen. Instead, you’ll go straight into logging into Windows 8.

The Local Policy Editor comes only with Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8 Enterprise. But you can still turn off the Lock screen in any version of Windows 8 by using a Registry hack. In the Registry Editor, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization and create a DWORD called NoLockScreen. Change its value from 0 to 1, exit the Registry Editor, and exit and restart Windows 8.

Turning off the Lock screen
Turning off the Lock screen

(Note: If you don’t find the Personalization key, you’ll have to create it before creating the NoLockScreen DWORD.)

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