The Windows 11 Lock Screen

When your Windows 11 PC is locked, you'll encounter a lock screen with a clock, date, and a special background epitome. Here'due south how y'all can alter the lock screen photo, remove the tips, and customize other elements on the screen.

Showtime, right-click an empty part of your desktop and select "Personalize." Or you can open Settings with Windows+i and click "Personalization" in the sidebar.

In Settings > Personalization, click "Lock Screen."

In Lock Screen settings, you have three main options: Personalize Your Lock Screen, which lets yous set a custom image or slideshow as your lock screen background, Lock Screen Status, which displays a status widget on the lock screen, and an option that disables the lock screen moving picture on the sign-in screen.

The Lock screen personalization options in Windows 11 Settings.

To change your lock screen background image, click the drop-downwardly box beside "Personalize Your Lock Screen" and choose either "Flick" or "Slideshow." (The default option is "Windows Spotlight," which pulls images provided past Microsoft from the Internet.)

Select an option from the "Personalize Your Lock Screen" drop-down menu.

If you select "Slideshow," you can browse for a binder full of images y'all'd like to use. Windows will rotate betwixt them automatically over time. If y'all choose "Picture show," yous tin select a contempo image from the thumbnail list or click "Browse Photos" and choose a custom image yourself.

If you lot don't want to come across tips and cute statements from Microsoft on your lock screen, you tin disable that by unchecking the box beside "Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen." This volition remove the words and tips from your lock screen completely.

Uncheck "Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen."

Beneath that, yous can choose an app to show detailed condition on the lock screen, such as how many unread emails you have or the current weather. Click the drop-downwards list and make a selection.

Select a lock screen status app from the drop-down list.

And finally, if yous don't want to run into your lock screen groundwork image on your Windows 11 sign-in screen (where you enter your password, PIN, or otherwise), switch "Show the lock screen groundwork picture on the sign-in screen" to "Off."

(Keeping this "On" is perfectly fine, likewise, depending on your personal preference.)

Turn off "Show the lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen."

Subsequently that, close Settings, and you're set to go. You can test the lock screen by pressing Windows+L on your keyboard or past clicking your account name in Start and selecting "Lock." Have fun!

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