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I have the following strange behaviour: on a tablet running Win10 x64, I have a user without a password, and selected that this user is logged on automatically. I don't have hybrid Standby enabled.

My problem is: when I got to energy save for only one or two minutes, and switch on the device, I get a picture to slide, and then logon.

However, if I wait for some minutes in standby, and enable my device, I get a single-colored screen, and when I swipe it, I have to click "logon" to get back to my desktop.

I wonder why the same action leads to different behaviours dependeing on the amount of time that has passed

I guess I am missing a new option in Windows update 1607, but which one?

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  • Only thing I can think in one case your getting the locks screen, then the logon screen and the other the logon. Can you confirm
    – Ramhound
    Commented Aug 7, 2016 at 13:20
  • In one case, after short time after energy safe, I get a image, and when I swipe the image, I am taken to the desktop directly. In the other case, I get a single-colored background, and when I swipe this, I get to the logon-screen. What's the difference between the two, and when do I get which, and why? Note that my user does not have a password set.
    – Erik
    Commented Aug 7, 2016 at 14:01
  • Honestly. It sounds like a bug. In both cases you should be getting the lock screen, at least on, 1607.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Aug 7, 2016 at 23:24

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I think I finally figured out what is causing this behaviour, and as far as I can tell, this is clearly a bug caused by Microsoft, who don't have control about the complexity of their different settings anymore, as it seems.

As I said, my user doesn't have a password set , which means that some options in the accounts-settings-dialog (modern UI settings) aren't available. So the first thing I did was temporarily set a password for my user, which makes an option in the Accounts -> Sign-in options available that says "Require sign-in: If you've been away, when should Windows require you to sign in again?" which defaults to 15 minutes. After setting this value to never, and then disabling the password (which also hides this settings option completely), everything worked as expected even when the user is in standby mode for a long time.

What is obviously happening is that, even if that option is invisible to users who don't have set a password and doesn't make any sense in that context, the corresponding setting behind in the registry is internally used anyway, and when the period of time has passed, the login-screen appears, even if login means to simply push a button, since no password is set at all.

That gives you a horrible impression of how good or bad Microsoft tests the different scenarios of their software. It took me some time to figure out, and I am happy that I finally found out what caused the behaviour I was experiencing, however, I am not really happy with what I figured out...

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