

Since the above discussed issues arise because of driver or Windows updates or wrong driver installation, administrators must uninstall Windows updates, rollback the updated drivers, or uninstall the culprit drivers to resolve the issue. When this happens, users are bound to restart the computer several times in vain to get the system up and running. In such situations, a very common issue that users experience is that Windows 8 displays a black screen right after booting. However, the problem may occur when administrators upgrade the device drivers, update Windows 8, or any driver fails to install properly. Moreover, when administrators install appropriate drivers according to the hardware, the drivers are installed, and most of the times Windows 8 starts performing quite normally, as it is meant to be. To re-enable the lock screen in the future, either delete the NoLockScreen value from your registry or set it to 0.Ĭlose the registry editor and now you’ve successfully removed the lock screen.When Windows 8 is installed for the first time on a bare-metal machine (on a new hard disk in which no operating system is installed), the installation mostly completes successfully with no flaws or errors. Right-click in the right pane and create a new DWORD value named NoLockScreen, and then set its value to 1. If you do not see the Personalization key, you have to create it by right-clicking the Windows key above it and selecting New -> Key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization

This will permanently disable Lock Screen.
