{"id":6132,"date":"2016-02-02T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2016-02-02T06:18:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:18:56","slug":"enable-disable-lock-workstation-feature-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/enable-disable-lock-workstation-feature-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable \/ Disable Lock Workstation Feature in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7 and Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"

In previous post we’ve covered 3 ways to lock a Windows computer<\/a>. If you are unable to lock your Windows system or want to disable the computer lock option completely, here’s how you can enable \/ disable lock workstation feature in Windows 10, 8, 7 and Vista. When the lock feature is disabled, you will be unable to lock your computer by either pressing Windows + L, Ctrl + Alt + Del, or clicking the Lock option from the Start menu.<\/p>\n

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How to Enable \/ Disable Lock Workstation Feature?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows + R key combination to bring up a run box, type gpedit.msc<\/strong> and hit Enter.<\/li>\n
  2. When the Local Group Policy Editor opens navigate to:
    \n\tUser Configuration\\System\\Ctrl+Alt+Del Options<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. On the right hand side you should see a setting called “Remove Lock Computer<\/strong>“. Double-click on it.<\/li>\n
  4. Then change the radio button over to Enabled<\/strong> if you want to disable the lock workstation feature.\n

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    To enable this feature later, just change it to Disabled<\/strong> or Not Configured<\/strong>. Click OK<\/strong> to save your changes.<\/li>\n

  5. Now you will need to enforce the updated policy to take effect on your PC, to do this press the Windows + R key combination, when the Run box open run:
    \n\tgpupdate \/force<\/code><\/li>\n
  6. Once you press enter you Local Group Policy will be automatically updated. Windows will no longer show the lock option when that you press the Windows key + L or Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard combination.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In previous post we’ve covered 3 ways to lock a Windows computer. If you are unable to lock your Windows system or want to disable the computer lock option completely, here’s how you can enable \/ disable lock workstation feature in Windows 10, 8, 7 and Vista. When the lock feature is disabled, you will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,3,39,5],"tags":[2525,2528,2527,2526],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","category-windows-vista","tag-disable-computer-lock","tag-lock-computer","tag-unable-to-lock-computer","tag-unable-to-lock-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","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=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}