In Windows 10, the operating system has the screen lock feature before you log into your account. The new experience shows the time and day, the quick status of the apps you want and a background image, which the user has normally chosen from their images or those selected by Windows Spotlight.
While the lock screen offers useful information and beautiful images, surely you have realized that after 60 seconds the screen turns off when you lock your Windows 10 account. This occurs even if you have changed the power settings so that the monitor never turns off or never puts the computer into sleep mode.
This is because, by design, the operating system includes a feature that detects when the device is locked and launches a 60-second counter. After the time passes, the computer screen turns off. This function cannot be customized from Settings, although it can be modified from the Registry editor.
With the steps below we will be able to modify the time with which we can interact with the background, state or even Cortana. Remember that we are going to touch the registry editor, so follow all the steps so as not to cause unexpected problems.
How to change how long the screen is displayed when the PC is locked
- We use Windows + R to launch the run command. We wrote regedit and click "OK"
- We this route:
HKEYLOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7
- In the right part we double click on the key DWORD Attributes
- We change the value of 1 to 2
- We give «Accept«
These steps are just to activate the option in Windows 10 called "Console lock display off time", or what is the time that we can modify for the lock screen. Now we only have to customize this option as long as we want:
- Now use the key combination Windows + X to launch the advanced menu and select "Power Options"
- Click on «change plan settings«
- Now click on «Change advanced power settings«
- In the Advanced Settings window, scroll until you find «Screen»And expand it by clicking on the« + »icon
- Now you will have to see the option «Lock screen shutdown timeout«. Double click on it
- Change the default time from 1 minute to whatever you want (always in minutes)
- Click now on «Apply«
- Now "Accept«
Now you can test the time that stays the Windows lock screen before logging in.