To my eyes, the lock screen is just an annoyance that I must tap or swipe away before I get to the actual login screen, behind which the contents of my PC are locked and secured.

To remove the lock screen entirely, so that locking is just a plain password prompt -- and booting up goes straight to the same password prompt -- just follow these very simple steps.

In this guide, we'll show you a quick way to remove the Network button and make the Lock screen a little more private on Windows 10.

Did you forget your account password? No worries, you can now quickly reset it from the Lock screen starting with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.