Windows 8.1 Lock Screen Annoying-ness

Post Published:


img100

This is the ugly picture that is haunting our Mulitple user All-In-One desktop computer since upgrading to Win 8.1 from Win 8.0.

I can’t stand it!

Each user has a lock screen chosen, no user has that one.

When someone logs out their own lock screen shows for a few seconds/minutes, but then this one takes over.

It’s horrible.

Before the update to 8.1, Win 8 on this machine showed the last user logged in/out when everyone else was logged out or … if whatever else senario happened.

Occasionally another picture appeared, but it was an O.K. one, not annoying like the above.

In any case I want the picture gone. I cannot delete it from the computer, it’s locked to:

Locked to Admin to delete
Locked to Admin to delete

So hit “Continue” with Admin privileges and get this:

Locked to TrustedInstaller - won't let Admin delete it
Locked to TrustedInstaller – won’t let Admin delete it

That’s just the dirty way to handle it. I wanted to, but can not. I do want a real fix for the “problem” … I want my family computer to NOT USE SOME RANDOM means nothing to me so much that it’s annoying picture when no one is logged in.

I have searched and searched and found no help. So if you know what to do, please leave a comment with clear details and/or a link to the same sort of help somewhere safe online.




2 responses to “Windows 8.1 Lock Screen Annoying-ness”

  1. Maisy Avatar

    I have and did before writing this blog post, edited group policy to force a change, but it doesn’t “work” I can force user to not be able to change their lock screens, that works.

    I found a post online yesterday that someone refer to a “lock screen bug” in WIn 8.1 Preview or something, and the answers were that only some people had that problem, and a Refresh of the OS fixed it, so that’s what I’ll do today.

  2. Maisy Avatar

    Sometime, in the past couple of months, this issue was fixed when something updated. Suddenly the photo I set in policy shows when no one else is logged in on the All in One family computer.

Leave a Reply. (Email address is never shared/spammed; or connect via a service.)

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.