{"id":11683,"date":"2018-06-04T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2018-06-04T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T02:43:18","slug":"enable-or-disable-dynamic-lock-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/enable-or-disable-dynamic-lock-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable or Disable Dynamic Lock in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dynamic Lock greyed out? Since Windows 10 Creators Update you can set up Dynamic Lock<\/a> to automatically lock down your PC when you’re away. Here we’ll show you 3 ways to enable or disable Dynamic Lock in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Enable or Disable Dynamic Lock Using Settings App<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press Win+I keyboard shortcut to open the Settings app, and then go to Accounts<\/strong> -> Sign-in options<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Scroll down to the Dynamic lock<\/strong> section on the right, uncheck the “Allow Windows to automatically lock your device when you’re away<\/strong>” option to disable Dynamic Lock for your current user, or check it to turn it on.\n

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  3. Close the Settings app.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Enable or Disable Dynamic Lock Using Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open the Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to the following path:\n

      HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon<\/code><\/li>\n

    2. Double-click on the EnableGoodbye<\/strong> entry on the right, and set its value data as per your requirement. 0 = Disable, 1 = Enable\n

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    3. Close Registry Editor and reboot your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Method 3: Enable or Disable Dynamic Lock Using Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Press Win+R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command, then type gpedit.msc<\/strong> and press Enter.\n

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      2. In the Local Group Policy Editor window, browse to the following path on the left:\n

        Computer Configuration \u2013> Administrative Template \u2013> System \u2013> Logon<\/code><\/p>\n

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        Then double-click the “Configure Dynamic Lock<\/strong>” policy on the right.<\/li>\n

      3. Select the Disabled<\/strong> option to will disable the Dynamic Lock feature for all user accounts in Windows 10.\n

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        If you want to enable that feature, then choose the Enabled<\/strong> option instead.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      4. Click Apply<\/strong> and then OK<\/strong>. Reboot to have the group policy take effect immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Dynamic Lock greyed out? Since Windows 10 Creators Update you can set up Dynamic Lock to automatically lock down your PC when you’re away. Here we’ll show you 3 ways to enable or disable Dynamic Lock in Windows 10. Method 1: Enable or Disable Dynamic Lock Using Settings App Press Win+I keyboard shortcut to open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3808,3806,3805,3807],"class_list":["post-11683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-disable-dynamic-lock-windows-10","tag-enable-dynamic-lock-windows-10","tag-windows-10-dynamic-lock","tag-windows-10-dynamic-lock-greyed-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11695,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}