So I took a plunge and installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my main home PC. So far so good, but there is one annoyance - the system "locks" the computer after a period of inactivity causing me to re-enter my password.
I really would like to avoid this, but have no idea how. I already tried the power settings (no pass on wake up) and the screen saver settings with no luck. Is this some sort of bug, or am I missing something?
P.S. In this case I favor convenience over security.
1- Use the +R to bring the Run command, type gpedit.msc and hit Enter. This will start the Local Group Policy Editor that is extremely useful to control many Windows settings.
2- From the left pane, navigate through: Administrative Templates > Control Panel and select Personalization. In the right side you’ll have all the settings that you can control in this section.
3- Choose “Do not display the lock screen” setting and double-click it.
4- As you noticed, this policy setting controls if the lock screen in Windows 8 appears or not to all users. This is pretty similar to the Ctrl+ALT+Del feature in Windows. Check Enabled, then click Apply and OK.
Source http://tutorials.ebasio.com/189/disable-stop-lock-screen-feature.html