How To Deactivate lock Screen for Quick access in Windows 8?

The latest Windows 8 marked a new level in security. The pin lock, image lock and even biometrics, lock screen is also added in Windows 8 as an additional layer of security. You must first click their or press a button to go to the log-on screen.

But if in any case you find it troublesome, you can deactivate the lock screen to quickly go to the lock screen. You will just need to make some changes to the Windows registry to enable this. 

Follow the steps:   

1. Change to the desktop view and press the buttons [Win] + [R].

2.Then enter “regedit”, press [Enter] and confirm the user account and confirm the user account control dialog box by clicking “Yes”. Navigate to the key-“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization”.

3. Now if the sub-key “Personalization” is still not available create it with the command “Process | New | key”. Once done, click on the right hand panel and open the option “Process | New DWORD value”.

4. Name the new value “NoLockScreen” and press [Enter]. Double click the new entry, change its “Value” to ‘1’, and confirm the changes by clicking “OK” and close the registry.

By this method the lock screen has been disabled and the log-on screen will be presented when you next time start the system.