How to disable locking on Windows 10 Enterprise edition in kiosk mode

Question

Hi,

I have a system that has Windows 10 Enterprise edition LTSC (Build 10.0.17763) installed. We need to setup this system in the kiosk mode with single application running on the system. On power on, we have setup auto logon so that user does not have to enter credentials to login to windows. User will only enter the login credentials in the application.

We have got this working, but if the system is kept idle over a long duration (over a weekend), the lock screen shows up and user has to login to windows to access the application. This is not a desired behavior and we need that the lock screen should never appear or system should never get locked.

We are unable to see the Require Sign In option under Settings -> Accounts-> Sing-In options and hence not able to set that to Never. The provisioning package that we apply for kiosk mode has disable lock screen option set. We also tried to disable some group policies for this (require password when waking from sleep, disable lock screen, idle time after which system can go to sleep-set to never) but nothing seems to be working. The sleep setting is also set to Never on the system.

This is a standalone PC and is not controlled by the organization, not connected to a domain.

Could you please guide us on how we can disable locking on this system?

Answer 1

Hello,

For Windows 10 standalone you can use gpedit.msc and set “Do Not Display the Lock Screen” to “Enabled”

This option can be found under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization.

Make sure the settings confirm the sleep is set to never and you can also add a registry key of "DWORD (32-bit) Value." as NoLockScreen and set to it as 1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Personalization

Have a try and share the results.

Answer 2

Hi @Ketaki

Could this be to do with the Interactive Logon configuration?

Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies/Security Options

Interactive logon: Machine inactivity limit

Please see this guide:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/interactive-logon-machine-inactivity-limit

I do hope this answers your question.

Thanks.

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