In this guide, we will see how to disable the password after sleep/wake/hibernation to get rid of the password issue altogether and to disable it for those who don’t want to have to type in the password every time the system wakes up from sleep.
For Windows Users:
Use the Windows 10 Settings Menu
For many of the basic system users, a user can turn off the password for Windows 10 wakeup by using the Settings menu. If the dropdown in the Require Sign-in section is greyed out, check if changing the user password enables the dropdown.
Use the Windows 11 Settings Menu
To remove “authentication is required when my computer wakes from sleep” on a Windows 11 PC, you may try the method below:
Use the Power Options in the Control Panel
Use the User Accounts in the Windows Control Panel
If a user account is set to enter a user name and password to use the computer, then that setting may override the above-mentioned settings and keep asking the user to enter the password when waking up from sleep.
Use the Command Prompt to Disable the Password on Waking from Sleep
If the Settings or Power Options method did not work or a CLI (Command Line Interface) happy geek wants to use a CLI-based method, then a user can turn off the wakeup password by using the Windows Command Prompt. Keep in mind that if you want to disable the password when the system awakes from sleep on many systems, then creating a batch file with the above commands will make things quite easy. In case, you ever want to enable the password requirement, then you may execute the following (one by one): For Battery: When Plugged-in
Edit the Relevant Registry Entries in Windows 10 and Windows 11
If a user fails to disable the password by using the above methods, then a registry entry may be causing the issue, and a user may turn off the lock screen on Windows 10 after sleep mode by editing the relevant registry entries. Warning: Advance with utmost care and at your own risk as editing the system’s registry is a skillful task and if anything goes wrong, you may cause undying damage to your system/data.
Use the Group Policy Editor to Disable the Password on the System’s Wake-up
If the above methods did not work, then a group policy (group policy settings override the system’s registry values) may be restricting a user from disabling the password requirement on the system’s wake-up, and disabling the same may solve the problem. Windows Home users may have to install Group Policy Editor. Keep in mind this will affect all the users of the machine, not just the current user.
Disable Password on a Modern Standby Supported System
If a system supports modern standby, then a user may fail to disable the password on such a system with the above-mentioned methods. So, firstly, let us check if the system is modern standby supported or not. To do so, launch Command Prompt as Administrator and execute the following in it: If the output showed any one of the following is available, then the system supports the Modern Standby: In this case, check if disabling the Modern Standby solves the problem. If not, then you may edit the system registry to disable the system’s wakeup password. To do so, If none of the above worked, then you may either disable the lock screen (strictly not recommended) or check if a work or school policy is not causing the issue.
For Mac Users
For Ubuntu Users
The CLI (Command Line Interface) happy geeks may use the following in the Ubuntu BASH to disable screen lock on the system suspension:
A Security Concern
As a user has disabled the password on the system’s wakeup from sleep, that may make a system more vulnerable to a security incident. As a piece of advice, you may set up a smart lock on your system, so, when you are away from your system, it gets locked.
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