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How Do I Disable the Media Controls That Appear On the Windows 10 Lock Screen?

Anonymous
2020-10-16T22:20:22+00:00

How do I disable the media controls that appear on the Windows 10 lock screen?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-02T10:54:12+00:00

    Many people will have many different media apps that they use over the course of their PC's lifetime. Its completely unreasonable to expect them to find each and every app that uses this, and then find out how to turn it off for each app separately. Its unacceptable that this "feature" can't be turned off globally. Its a pretty blatant hole in privacy. PC is "locked", but any random person can come and browse your music collection.

    Hopefully this gets fixed. Hate this new trend of "ooh lets add this shiny new feature" without a single thought about what the side affects are.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-08T17:59:48+00:00

    Many people will have many different media apps that they use over the course of their PC's lifetime. Its completely unreasonable to expect them to find each and every app that uses this, and then find out how to turn it off for each app separately. Its unacceptable that this "feature" can't be turned off globally. Its a pretty blatant hole in privacy. PC is "locked", but any random person can come and browse your music collection.

    Hopefully this gets fixed. Hate this new trend of "ooh lets add this shiny new feature" without a single thought about what the side affects are.

    I have the problem and I have a solution. It is not perfect but it works. When you lock the screen with Win+L then press the Enter button. Now the media controls are invisible and there is no way to go back. But of course it is not exactly a "solution". Microsoft devs must do something about it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-16T22:26:52+00:00

    Hello,

    My Name is Chander and I am Independent Advisor and a fellow Windows 10 user like you. I hope I can help you on your concern.

    In Chrome go to chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling and set that to "Disabled":

    Let me know if that helps or not?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-16T22:32:51+00:00

    I don't use Chrome. I use Firefox. Is there no way to disable this globally for all Windows applications?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-16T23:10:40+00:00

    Refer this for firefox - https://www.askvg.com/tip-enable-firefox-to-sho....

    To clarify, Microsoft Windows 10 does not allow you to disable this "feature?"

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