Windows 8 In Depth

Customizing the Lock Screen

The Lock screen is the screen that appears before you sign on to Windows 8 (or, if your PC has multiple user accounts, it’s the screen that appears before you select which account to sign on). You have three ways to invoke the Lock screen:

• Turn on or restart your PC.

• Sign out of your user account (by clicking your user account tile and then clicking Sign Out).

• Lock your PC (by clicking your user account tile and then clicking Lock, or by pressing Windows Logo+L).

In other words, the Lock screen comes up relatively often when you use Windows 8, so you might as well get the most out of it by customizing it to suit how you work. The next three sections take you through these customizations.