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Remove the featured Windows image

nadellen Posted messages 11941 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -
Hello,
after searching this forum and the net, I tried msconig, added a key in regedit, and did many other manipulations, but nothing worked to remove this landscape image that appears before I can log in
I only managed to put the same image as my desktop background, so at least it’s always the same image, but it's still there, I can't get rid of it; is it related to the Microsoft account or to Windows itself?
Windows 10 Pro version 21h2
thank you.

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    Pierr10 Posted messages 13828 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   5 840
     
    Hello

    Go to Settings => Personalization => Lock screen => Customize your lock screen


    Windows Spotlight gives a random image chosen by Windows.
    Choose Picture to set your own static image.

    --
    What is well conceived is clearly stated,
    And the words to say it come easily.
    (Boileau)
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    1. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
       
      Hello,

      Already illustrated in my link in <3>, albeit in English, I don't know what has been done or not aside from the register.
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      1. Pierr10 Posted messages 13828 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   5 840 > brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        Hello,

        I hadn’t clicked on the link! Otherwise, I wouldn’t have posted.

        I think it’s the simplest solution. And if we don’t want an image, we can easily create a blue background (or another color) with Paint.
        No need to touch the registry!
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      2. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169 > Pierr10 Posted messages 13828 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention  
         
        Absolutely, and I also have a solid blue background that I didn't even tweak with Paint but borrowed from Windows by customizing the rest of what I didn't like (the less there is, the better I feel), but to each their own.
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  2. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
     
    Hello,

    Besides of course being achievable by disabling the sleep mode, manually modifying the NoLockScreen registry key works for a reason that escapes me when it has the time, but correctly with the appropriate option of Ultimate Windows Tweaker or Winaero Tweaker.
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  3. nadellen Posted messages 11941 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   7 352
     
    Thank you for replying but I didn't understand anything! I don't see the connection with sleep mode.
    No, I'm talking about the random landscape image with the caption "Do you like this photo?" that Windows imposes before being able to log in with the Hello code.
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    1. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
       
      What is well conceived is clearly stated, but this feature relies on the Lock Screen even if you dislike it; it is completely disabled if we do not want any image at all as I indicated, and it is no longer random if we choose only "image".

      One might want it to contain not just a fixed image, but a gallery of their own, which will also disable the Windows comment request related to these random images.

      One can also disable the related function via the registry.

      https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-turn-windows-spotlight-lock-screen-on-or-off-in-windows/
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  4. nadellen Posted messages 11941 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   7 352
     
    I read, I did the manipulation in the registry, I correctly set the value of the created key to 1 and.....it's not working! I still have my image at startup;
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    1. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
       
      As I illustrated in <1>, manually modifying the Lock Screen via the registry is capricious, but it succeeds, for example, through Ultimate Windows Tweaker.

      I haven't tried the setting you mentioned (since I disabled everything), but there are also options (Customization, Universal UI) to disable the image change, and therefore probably their random change.
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  6. nadellen Posted messages 11941 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   7 352
     
    For the image itself, I managed to make it so that the image I selected myself displays, and no longer a random slideshow, even though I must admit that the images displayed are magnificent.

    But that's not what I'm looking for; I just want to remove it and go directly to the login screen
    but it seems it's not that simple. Well, it won't keep me up at night, but still, Windows and Microsoft are becoming more and more invasive.
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    1. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
       
      If not displaying the image is not enough, and neither is the register, then it means we need to go through the tweak I suggested: I don't have a lock screen image.

      It appears when waking from sleep and at logon, it should not be confused with the image that may appear independently at startup.
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