The lock screen in Windows 10 can be a welcome detail, or something definitely irritating. Personally, I think the logical thing is to get into the operating system as quickly and directly as possible, so being forced to press a key to enable the login becomes a bit annoying. Fortunately, everything we need to modify that behavior is a registry key in the right place. If you want to know exactly how to disable the lock screen in Windows 10, don't go far.
Windows 10 presents a significant number of annoying details that sooner or later every user has to resolve. As soon as it's installed, the operating system downloads bloatware without authorization. In its standard configuration, it includes several suggestions and recommendations that amount to advertising embedded among its functions. All the data collection is still there. It also becomes very insistent when it comes to preventing changes to the list of default programs, and we can't forget the new interception of Firefox and Chrome installs "because Edge is better!" in the Insider builds. Another very annoying aspect is having to press a key to escape the lock screen and access the login. While this is useful in secure environments, I think that in most cases, the user prefers Windows 10 to show the login directly. So we get to the question: How to disable the lock screen in Windows 10? The parameter is a single one, but you have two options:
How to disable the lock screen in Windows 10 with a small hack
The simplest one requires making a brief visit to the Majorgeeks portal, downloading a registry file and double-clicking on it. This adds a new parameter called NoLockScreen in the customization section of the Registry, with a DWORD value of 1. The Majorgeeks zip file also includes a second registry patch that reverts the lock screen to its original state, so you can change the setting whenever you want. Remember that Windows 10 will request elevated privileges before loading the Registry Editor, and will then warn about the risk associated with introducing new strings without checking them first.
The second option is... well, making the adjustment manually. The exact path is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization", the entry name is "NoLockScreen", and its DWORD value is 1. Restart the computer, and the change will be set. For now, this small hack works on Windows 10 "and" Windows 8.x, but we already know how Microsoft is. If tomorrow it gets out of bed on the wrong foot, this change could be neutralized with a hotfix. Let's take advantage while it lasts.
