The screen that shows up before login in Windows 10

amandstu

This annoys me. I am invited to look at a choice of landscapes with various links that I sometimes click by mistake.

I have to click on an empty space before I can login (I have set no password so why do I even have to login at all)

How to get rid of it or at least to make it as inoffensive as possible?

I have tried changing the background of the "lock screen" to a uniform colour but this has no effect.

smuggler.ie

Enjoying your WIn10 i see ? 😉

Wait til you get nappies or alike adds there, bet you M$ has this on their to-do list


search for how to turn off tips/facts (settings»personalization)or entirely disable/remove lockscreen(regedit, gpedit). Depend on your version, some options might not be available for you

amandstu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859286#Comment_122859286

Thanks.A long time since I used the regedit proceedure.

This one seems to call for it .

(some say just to remove the password but I don't have one to remove even though I have to login)

amandstu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859286#Comment_122859286

The regedit procedure did the trick.

Are there any downsides to installing an ad blocker now?

(used to have it before the hard drive crashed on the win7 I was running before -obviously some sites insist on you disabling it)

smuggler.ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122861699#Comment_122861699

not using myself(on FF "strict" privacy setting dont seam to need much, also filtering lots of crap on firewall), but your experience might be different. Other people , including here, are using without much problems, as far i can tell.
I am on my own "custom boards setup" so ads dont bother me at all (i just don't see them) on PC, rare on the phone(don't understand how it is readable/viewable for others, but ….)