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After using a group policy (Do Not Display Lock Screen) to disable the Windows 10 Pro Lock Screen the wallpaper picture that had been showing during Lock and Login no longer displays. Now it's just a grey background for the Login screen. I would still like to have a picture appear there. Possible, and if so, how?





No answers but some reputation dings, so I'll explain why I'm asking -- and it's not for lack of effort or research.



All the computers I'm dealing with are running Windows 10 Pro, ver 1803 (build 17134.441).



Despite all the computers having the identical OS version, the results after enabling the "Do not display the lock screen" policy vary and seem unpredictable. In all cases, before I enabled that policy all the computers had a lock screen/logon screen wallpaper image. After enabling it and rebooting, some PCs retained the original image behind the logon screen, but some now just have a grey background. This could be because some of the PCs had a custom jpeg wallpaper instead of a built-in one, but I'm just guessing.



Regardless, once the "disable lock screen" policy is enabled, most of the options on the Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen page are grayed out and inaccessible. However, "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen" is still active and works, but since everything above it is grayed out there's no way to select a different picture.



Which brings me back the goal underlying my question: how do you have a custom background picture on the Logon screen -- when the Lock screen is disabled?



BTW, I think it's curious that the "disable lock screen" Description includes a Note: "This setting only applies to Enterprise, Education, and Server SKUs," but it definitely works on these Pro PCs. Yet the nearby "Force a specific default lock screen and logon image" has the same note and does NOT work in Pro. The latter might offer a way to specify an image file since the Settings page is largely disabled.










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    After using a group policy (Do Not Display Lock Screen) to disable the Windows 10 Pro Lock Screen the wallpaper picture that had been showing during Lock and Login no longer displays. Now it's just a grey background for the Login screen. I would still like to have a picture appear there. Possible, and if so, how?





    No answers but some reputation dings, so I'll explain why I'm asking -- and it's not for lack of effort or research.



    All the computers I'm dealing with are running Windows 10 Pro, ver 1803 (build 17134.441).



    Despite all the computers having the identical OS version, the results after enabling the "Do not display the lock screen" policy vary and seem unpredictable. In all cases, before I enabled that policy all the computers had a lock screen/logon screen wallpaper image. After enabling it and rebooting, some PCs retained the original image behind the logon screen, but some now just have a grey background. This could be because some of the PCs had a custom jpeg wallpaper instead of a built-in one, but I'm just guessing.



    Regardless, once the "disable lock screen" policy is enabled, most of the options on the Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen page are grayed out and inaccessible. However, "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen" is still active and works, but since everything above it is grayed out there's no way to select a different picture.



    Which brings me back the goal underlying my question: how do you have a custom background picture on the Logon screen -- when the Lock screen is disabled?



    BTW, I think it's curious that the "disable lock screen" Description includes a Note: "This setting only applies to Enterprise, Education, and Server SKUs," but it definitely works on these Pro PCs. Yet the nearby "Force a specific default lock screen and logon image" has the same note and does NOT work in Pro. The latter might offer a way to specify an image file since the Settings page is largely disabled.










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      After using a group policy (Do Not Display Lock Screen) to disable the Windows 10 Pro Lock Screen the wallpaper picture that had been showing during Lock and Login no longer displays. Now it's just a grey background for the Login screen. I would still like to have a picture appear there. Possible, and if so, how?





      No answers but some reputation dings, so I'll explain why I'm asking -- and it's not for lack of effort or research.



      All the computers I'm dealing with are running Windows 10 Pro, ver 1803 (build 17134.441).



      Despite all the computers having the identical OS version, the results after enabling the "Do not display the lock screen" policy vary and seem unpredictable. In all cases, before I enabled that policy all the computers had a lock screen/logon screen wallpaper image. After enabling it and rebooting, some PCs retained the original image behind the logon screen, but some now just have a grey background. This could be because some of the PCs had a custom jpeg wallpaper instead of a built-in one, but I'm just guessing.



      Regardless, once the "disable lock screen" policy is enabled, most of the options on the Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen page are grayed out and inaccessible. However, "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen" is still active and works, but since everything above it is grayed out there's no way to select a different picture.



      Which brings me back the goal underlying my question: how do you have a custom background picture on the Logon screen -- when the Lock screen is disabled?



      BTW, I think it's curious that the "disable lock screen" Description includes a Note: "This setting only applies to Enterprise, Education, and Server SKUs," but it definitely works on these Pro PCs. Yet the nearby "Force a specific default lock screen and logon image" has the same note and does NOT work in Pro. The latter might offer a way to specify an image file since the Settings page is largely disabled.










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      After using a group policy (Do Not Display Lock Screen) to disable the Windows 10 Pro Lock Screen the wallpaper picture that had been showing during Lock and Login no longer displays. Now it's just a grey background for the Login screen. I would still like to have a picture appear there. Possible, and if so, how?





      No answers but some reputation dings, so I'll explain why I'm asking -- and it's not for lack of effort or research.



      All the computers I'm dealing with are running Windows 10 Pro, ver 1803 (build 17134.441).



      Despite all the computers having the identical OS version, the results after enabling the "Do not display the lock screen" policy vary and seem unpredictable. In all cases, before I enabled that policy all the computers had a lock screen/logon screen wallpaper image. After enabling it and rebooting, some PCs retained the original image behind the logon screen, but some now just have a grey background. This could be because some of the PCs had a custom jpeg wallpaper instead of a built-in one, but I'm just guessing.



      Regardless, once the "disable lock screen" policy is enabled, most of the options on the Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen page are grayed out and inaccessible. However, "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen" is still active and works, but since everything above it is grayed out there's no way to select a different picture.



      Which brings me back the goal underlying my question: how do you have a custom background picture on the Logon screen -- when the Lock screen is disabled?



      BTW, I think it's curious that the "disable lock screen" Description includes a Note: "This setting only applies to Enterprise, Education, and Server SKUs," but it definitely works on these Pro PCs. Yet the nearby "Force a specific default lock screen and logon image" has the same note and does NOT work in Pro. The latter might offer a way to specify an image file since the Settings page is largely disabled.







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