Comments on: Disable/Enable Lock Workstation Functionality (Windows + L)

By: Ashu(idea)

Ashu(idea) — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:32:05 +0000

Funny, I had the opposite happen to me. I can’t press Windows-L to lock the workstation any more after the registry modification, but the Lock option is still on my Start menu (though it does nothing when clicked). This has saved me. Works under Vista. The value was there but had reset itself to 1 for some reason.

Many thanks for a great tip as I using Windows-L to lock my PC when I go away for a few moments all the time.

By: ashu

ashu — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:29:19 +0000

This has saved me.Now there is no more ctrl-alt-del lock computer choice, it is grayed out. win-l does nothing. users were doing win-l and locking up the unit. we had to ether reboot the computer or wait for someone from engineering to log the kiosk out to use the kiosk again. was able to merge the reg hack into the registry with out login as administrator or even loging the kiosk out, worked like a charm.

By: latika

latika — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:24:09 +0000

gracias y chupenmela}

By: Joe H

Joe H — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:41:20 +0000

Go to Run -> GPEDIT.MSC

Then navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+Del Options

Change the �Remove Lock Computer� option to enabled if you want to remove the ability to lock the computer.

By: T101

T101 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:51:27 +0000

Thanks a lot…
working like a charm…

By: Zwollewood

Zwollewood — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:02:35 +0000

Thank’s, the Opposite happened to me, it is solved again….

By: TONYH

TONYH — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:17:42 +0000

It’s works, thanks. WINXP

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:05:14 +0000

This has saved me. Works under Vista. The value was there but had reset itself to 1 for some reason.

Many thanks for a great tip as I using Windows-L to lock my PC when I go away for a few moments all the time.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:32:42 +0000

Works great for our xp kiosk I setup. Now there is no more ctrl-alt-del lock computer choice, it is grayed out. win-l does nothing. users were doing win-l and locking up the unit. we had to ether reboot the computer or wait for someone from engineering to log the kiosk out to use the kiosk again. was able to merge the reg hack into the registry with out login as administrator or even loging the kiosk out, worked like a charm.

Just in case it is a combo of things i wanted to state that i did run gpedit.msc and disable the ctrl-alt-del in the -user configuration -administrative templates -system, I actually had to right click and ad/remove templated before i could see the system template with ctrl-alt-del.

By: mario

mario — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:08:58 +0000

How to automaticly run some programm when user press WIN+L or other way he locks the workstation?