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How to Disable Lock Screen Entirely

Anonymous
2025-06-25T14:04:14+00:00

I'm trying to set up a computer that needs to never lock or go to sleep. I have changed the power and sleep settings to never, set up a NoLockScreen key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization, enabled "Do Not Display the Lock Screen" under Local Computer Policy\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Personalization in the Group Policy Editor, tried setting the screen saver to wait 0 minutes to lock, tried extending that wait time but it won't go longer than 15 minutes, and moved it to a folder in AD that has very few group policies, none of which should be telling it to lock after a certain period of time. It's running Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.4351, and I'm just out of ideas to keep this computer from locking.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-06-25T14:25:44+00:00

    Hello Emily,

    That group policy will only disable the lock screen like in the tutorial below. It doesn't prevent locking the computer.

    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-lock-screen-in-windows-11.1287/

    You can use the method in the tutorial below to disable lock computer.

    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-lock-computer-in-windows-11.4772/

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