Probably the easiest way to activate this screen is to left-click your
account's icon, then select 'Lock' from the drop-down menu.
However, if you want to Personalize this screen you need to find the
underlying Lock screen options. This involves the Windows 8 Settings,
thus begin with WinKey +w.
Alternatively, at the Metro start screen, type 'L o c k', but then switch
from Apps to Settings, see screenshot right.
At the PC settings, make sure you select Personalize, then Lock screen.
Gotcha. I have yet to find a way to drag and drop
apps to change their order. The only way I can get my desired sequence is to unpin then repin the desired app.
2) Choose an app to display detailed status
Recommendation choose Calendar or one of the Weather Apps.
Troubleshooting apps to display Check in the Metro-style App's
settings that it has the ability to display on the Windows 8 lock screen.
Call for the 'Charms', Settings (Charm), select Permissions, and make sure
that 'Lock screen' is on. If there is no lock screen permission, then
that app does not have the ability to display when you press WinKey +L.
Note: You access these PC Settings via the Metro interface,
my point is the they are different from 'Personalize' options seen if you
right click the desktop and choose: 'Personalize' from the shortcut menu.
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Lock Screen v Screen Saver Setup The best way to see the
differences is to set different backgrounds for these two settings.
Screensaver settings: At the Metro UI type 'Screen Saver', check the
bottom right of the screen, for the experiment set to 1 minute.
Lock Screen settings: At the Metro UI type 'Lock Screen', click on Settings,
then click on the Lock Screen Icon. Now look at the PC Settings, Lock
Screen (Top middle of the screen).
Lock Screen v Screen Saver Experiment Probably the easiest way to activate
the Lock Screen is to left-click your
account's icon and then select 'Lock' from the drop-down menu.
Once you have observed the background, unlock the screen, go back to the
desktop and wait for the screen saver timeout to elapse. Indeed, this
highlights a difference the lock screen doesn't activate unless you
explicitly click on lock, or type WinKey +L.
Another important difference is that with a password is optional to resume
from the Screen Saver, whereas you cannot get past the Lock screen without
your password.
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It is possible to activate the lock screen with: rundll32.exe user32.dll,
LockWorkStation
The benefit of this command is that you could create a Scheduled Task which
locks the Windows 8 machine; you could set a trigger on the initial logon or
idle. The reason for doing this would be to prevent people having
access to your machine if you left the room.
The advent of touch screens brings the need for new ways of closing programs
in general and Apps in particular.
What you find is that the old ways of ending programs such as Alt +F4 are
being replaced with a finger's swipe or a mouse's hand.
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