Advertisement

LockScreenGone – an app to disable Lock Screen in Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Windows 10 comes with a Lock Screen feature in addition to the Logon screen where you type the password. It is an additional screen which is displayed with a fancy background and some useful information like clock and date. It appears before you can pick a user account to sign in. When you lock your computer, again you will see the Lock screen. Microsoft removed the ability to disable the Lock Screen in Windows 10 Anniversary for Pro and Home users. Here is a freeware tool which will allow you to disable the Lock Screen feature in Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607.

Advertisеment


Windows 10 Anniversary Update comes with an updated Group Policy which locks certain options to Enterprise and Education editions only. This includes the ability to disable the Lock screen. There are a number of solutions already available to disable the Lock screen in Windows 10 Anniversary Update, for example, see this:

Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607

However, if it doesn't work for you as expected, you can try LockScreenGone, a small freeware app which modifies one of the system files in Windows 10 to keep the Lock screen disabled.

Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10 Anniversary Update with LockScreenGone

  1. Download the app using the following link:
    Download LockScreenGone
  2. Extract all the files from the ZIP archive to any folder you want. You will get the following files:extracted-files
  3. Double click the Install.cmd file to apply the patch.It will modify the file "LogonController.dll" in your c:\windows\system32 folder. The original file will be backed up, so you can restore it if something goes wrong or if you decide to rollback the change.Note: you can run the Install.cmd file once again to undo the patch.
  4. Restart Windows 10 and you are done!

Before:

Windows 10 lockscreen default

After:Windows 10 Anniversary Update sign out no lock screen

For future updates, the author of the patch suggests that you delete the backup file manually in order to run the cmd file again.

That's it. The author of the patch is "dobbelina". You can contact the author at the following thread at MDL Forums.

Note that in an OS like Windows 10 which keeps constantly evolving, Microsoft can make the patch invalid any time if the LogonController.dll file gets updated. So the Lock screen will return if the original file gets restored by an update.

Support us

Winaero greatly relies on your support. You can help the site keep bringing you interesting and useful content and software by using these options:

If you like this article, please share it using the buttons below. It won't take a lot from you, but it will help us grow. Thanks for your support!

Advertisеment

Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

19 thoughts on “LockScreenGone – an app to disable Lock Screen in Windows 10 Anniversary Update”

  1. Congratulations for all your phantastic work. And thank you much for letting me use your knowledge.
    If only this painful lockscreen would disappear! I have tried all your suggestions, but everytime I turn on my computer, it shows up. A real pain i t a.

  2. Also “LockScreen Disabler” by AlphaWaves at MDL (bottom of 1st post):
    https://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/63920-Windows-10-Login-Changer

  3. Now broken with update KB3201845 WinVer (OS Build 14393.479

    It changed the MD5 hash on LogonController.dll

    Please update! This is a simple and elegant fix to a very annoying problem for those users who choose not to use the lock screen.

  4. Now broken with update KB3201845 (OS Build 14393.693

    It changed the MD5 hash on LogonController.dll and now even v3 does not work.

  5. Any work on the new update V1703 OS Build 15063.11? Premature, I know, but LogonController_Patchv6.zip does not work on this version.

    Thanks in advance

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

css.php
Using Telegram? Subscribe to the blog channel!
Hello. Add your message here.