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So I took a plunge and installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my main home PC. So far so good, but there is one annoyance - the system "locks" the computer after a period of inactivity causing me to re-enter my password.

I really would like to avoid this, but have no idea how. I already tried the power settings (no pass on wake up) and the screen saver settings with no luck. Is this some sort of bug, or am I missing something?

P.S. In this case I favor convenience over security.

Filip Frącz
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1- Use the +R to bring the Run command, type gpedit.msc and hit Enter. This will start the Local Group Policy Editor that is extremely useful to control many Windows settings.

2- From the left pane, navigate through: Administrative Templates > Control Panel and select Personalization. In the right side you’ll have all the settings that you can control in this section.

3- Choose “Do not display the lock screen” setting and double-click it.

4- As you noticed, this policy setting controls if the lock screen in Windows 8 appears or not to all users. This is pretty similar to the Ctrl+ALT+Del feature in Windows. Check Enabled, then click Apply and OK.

Source http://tutorials.ebasio.com/189/disable-stop-lock-screen-feature.html

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If you want to disable the Windows 8 lock screen, you can do that from local group policy Editor. You can find information at this link on how to do it: http://www.full-windows8.com/2012/03/how-to-disable-lock-screen-in-windows-8.html

Check out this easy tutorial too: http://techmell.com/how-to/turn-windows-8-lock-screen/

Jonathan Leffler
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