Windows 10 Lock Screen - Not showing locked username or real name

[mattpant]

Has anyone noticed that when you lock a Windows 10 workstation - it no longer shows the name of the user that is currently working on the machine, or give any really identification that somebody is working on the computer, as pressing Control + Alt + Del brings up the logon box for another user to easily login.

 

I can see this causing some big problems - we quite often have students, mainly in our 6th Form Study area, where they will "pop off" for a few minutes and lock their workstation - at present it says the workstation is locked and in use by "name of person" - On Windows 10 (and to some degree in Windows 8, although it does show the person logged into it in Windows 8) and user could pop off, somebody else could log on not knowing it's in use and carry on, only for the returning user to find somebody else is working on the workstation they are working on.

 

Has anybody found a way to change this behaviour? Possibly via GPO?

 

Thanks

 

Matt

[FN-GM]

They way it is behaving on mine is that when you lock the screen its essentially acting like the switch user button. You are not logged off but you are presented the login screen. Is that what you get? Try disabled fast user switching and see what happens.

[mdmd]

Can be changed in group policy, we did it and it works.

 

for local machines you can either set the local policy : Interactive logon: Do not display last user name to disabled.

 

Or registry it :

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

 

dontdisplaylastusername DWORD 0 = enable, 1 = disable

 

Thanks

[mattpant]

I thought we may have been onto a winner for that suggestion, but I've just taken a look and the option to disable fast user switching via Group Policy is already setup, so that doesn't make any difference for this scenerio.

[mattpant]

Can be changed in group policy, we did it and it works.

 

for local machines you can either set the local policy : Interactive logon: Do not display last user name to disabled.

 

Or registry it :

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

 

dontdisplaylastusername DWORD 0 = enable, 1 = disable

 

Thanks

 

I'm not sure if that's what I'm after, I have that setting in place for the job it's intended to do - That setting is in place to remove the username from a logon screen when the computer is switched on and sitting at the logon screen or when a user signs out completely from the computer, it removes the username of the last logged on user.

 

What I'm experiencing is when a computer is already logged on as a user - and whilst the computer is STILL in use, they lock it whilst they are absent from the machine - in previous versions of windows, the lock screen shows This computer is in use by "USER" - however, on Windows 10, the lock screen looks just like the normal Windows 10 logon screen, with no indication that somebody else is actually using that machine and away from the desk.

 

Thanks

 

Matt

[MartinRouterKing]

In order to see the logged on user from a locked screen, but not see the previously logged on user at the logon screen you need the setting Computer\administrative Templates\System\Logon and Hide Entry Points for Fast User Switching set to Enabled. This is in addition to the setting "Do not display last user name".

[MartinRouterKing]

Here is the article about it! https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3082141

[mattpant]

Thanks for that... I'm not in school to try it out at the moment! Seems total madness to me having to put those settings in for something that worked fine previously! Hey ho!

[william_tropico]

Was there any update to this? come to deploy W10 over summer holiday and I can see this issue becoming annoying for staff. By default students can't lock workstations but staff can. Currently if the computer is locked it looks like no one is logged in.

 

Any solutions?

[mavhc]

Here is the article about it! https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3082141

 

That now redirects to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3093266 , weird

[FN-GM]

Was there any update to this? come to deploy W10 over summer holiday and I can see this issue becoming annoying for staff. By default students can't lock workstations but staff can. Currently if the computer is locked it looks like no one is logged in.

 

Any solutions?

 

Do you have CTRL + ALT + DEL enabled?

[william_tropico]

Do you have CTRL + ALT + DEL enabled?

 

Yes we have it enabled.

[FN-GM]

Yes we have it enabled.

 

I have found if it isn't enabled it works fine. Its disabled by default anyway in Windows 10.