Five Ways to Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10

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. 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.

For 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. Fortunately there are more than one ways to disable the lockscreen in Windows 10:

Method 1: Using Registry Editor

1. Press Win+R to open the Run dialog.
2. In the Run dialog, type regedit and press Enter. This will launch the Registry Editor.
3. In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization
4. Right-click on the right-side pane and select New → Dword (32-bit) Value.
5. Give the newly create value name NoLockScreen and change its value to 1.

Method 2: Using Group Policy Editor

1. Press Win+R to open the Run dialog.
2. In the Run dialog, type gpedit and press Enter. This will launch the Group Policy Editor.
3. In the Group Policy Editor, select Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Control Panel → Personalization.
4. Double-click on Do not display the lock screen.
5. Change its property status to Enabled and click OK to save the settings.

Method 3: Using Registry Scripts

1. Download disable-lockscreen-windows-10.zip to your PC.
2. Extract the contents of the downloaded ZIP file to a folder.
3. Right-click on disable-lockscreen-windows-10.reg and select Merge. You can also just double-click on it.
4. Later if you want to enable the Lock Screen, you can use the other file enable-lockscreen-windows-10.reg in the similar manner.

Method 4: Using PowerShell

1. Press Win+X to open the power user menu and select Windows PowerShell (Admin) from this menu. Alternatively, you can open any folder and select File → Open Windows PowerShell → Open Windows PowerShell as administrator.
2. In the PowerShell copy/paste the following:

   Set-Location HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization
   New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization" -Name "NoLockScreen" -Value 1 -PropertyType Dword
   Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization" -Name "NoLockScreen" -Value 1

3. If you want to re-enable Lock Screen, then you can change value from 1 to 0 using the same method.

Method 5: Using a Windows Service

1. Download Lockscreen disabler from https://bitbucket.org/arbv/lockscreen-disabler/downloads/.
2. Extract the contents of the downloaded ZIP file to a folder.
3. Right-click on install.bat and select Run as administrator from the context-menu. This will install a service in Windows that will monitor registry and keep changing the relevant values to disable lock screen.