Windows spotlight will display one of a set of images provided my MS at random. I appreciate the variety, but not MS’s taste in landscapes. I want to be able to choose my own set of images, while retaining the automatic random selection feature. It is possible to display a single image by selecting “Picture” … Read more
The Windows 10 “anniversary update” is coming out tomorrow and according to some reports the group policy to disable the lock screen is no longer effective on anything below the Enterprise edition. I’d like to know what options/workarounds are left to disable this nonsense on Pro editions. Regards. Answer For Anniversary Update Builds There is … Read more
is it possible to lock the desktop in Windows 7 and have it continue to display your desktop wallpaper rather than the default Win7 locked-workstation screen? Answer Yes, you can. All you need is a small utility called Logon Changer from tweaks.com. It would allow you to change the logon/lock screen to whatever image you’d … Read more
If my laptop is plugged in I want closing the lid to automatically lock the computer, without putting it to sleep. I don’t see an option to do this in Power Options: Is there a hack to achieve this? Answer As far as I know, there is no built-in function to achieve this. But you … Read more
If my laptop is connected to power source and is not configured to sleep on lid close (it is connected to power source and is working, I don’t want it to sleep. It’s compiling my code) if I close the lid, laptop will do nothing. This works as expected, but actually if I have my … Read more
In 2000/XP/Vista it was easy to set a wallpaper for the logon screen, either manually through tools like Logonstudio or simple registry changes by hand on prepared installation images or through custom group policies. In Windows 7 all this works as usual, but the secondary (or any additional) monitor is just black. The mouse pointer … Read more
I use Windows 10 at work, and for security reasons, I always lock my workstation when I leave the room for any reason. The problem is that my monitor is a Samsung 4K TV and the lock screen puts it to sleep after only 60 seconds, and after a few more minutes, it goes completely … Read more
My Windows 10’s time format is 24 hour clock, this includes the taskbar but the lock screen is still 12 hour clock format. How do I change the format of my time in lockscreen? Answer Same here; I was able to get the lock screen to show HH:MM via my personal account with admin privileges, … Read more
With Windows 7 (and XP) I could walk up to a locked PC (without Ctrl-Alt-Del requirement) and start typing my password, even with the screen off, and the keypresses would all be sent to the password field, meaning that by the time the screen was on I was at the desktop. Same hardware, same scenario, … Read more
