Hi dobbelina. First i'd like to say thanks very much for your work on this, the Lock Screen drives me mad and your patch seems to be the only reliable solution. My PC did some Windows 10 updates last night and the LogonController_Patchv3 no longer works. I get the screen which says 'Sorry, your LogonController.dll has an unknown MDS'. I've checked the properties of LogonController.dll in the System32 directory and it says it is version 10.0.14393.479. I am runing Windows 10 Pro, version 1607, build 14393.576 and it's the 64-bit version. Any ideas?
Did you delete the LogonController.bak file in System32 before running the patcher? The patcher will only replace the dll if the MD5 is known, and it should work on the unpatched/original dll version 10.0.14393.479.
Hi, I have version 10.0.14393.0 64 bit can you patch my dll and give me instruction to replace? If you need let me know how can I let you have the file Many Thanks
Thanks for replying. Yes i did delete LogonController.bak in System32 first before running the patcher.
Hmm, odd? Into the LogonController_Patch folder, create a textfile with the following text: Code: @echo off cd /d "%~dp0" copy /y %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\LogonController.dll %TEMP%\LogonController.dll Tools\md5 -n -l %TEMP%\LogonController.dll > Mystery_dll.txt del /q %TEMP%\LogonController.dll Save it as mystery.cmd in the same folder (where Install.cmd resides). Doubleclick/run mystery.cmd and open the created Mystery_dll.txt file. Post the generated MD5 here in a reply. Inside the Tools folder there's a file named Patch_Index.txt. It contains the MD5 of the files the patch is replacing. Patched files reside in the "Files" folder. MD5 of your file should be d7f8e55d7aeca523b2b88ea04545b995
Thanks for that but i've sorted it out in a roundabout way. I have several PCs all running the same version of Windows 10 and all patched with your patch. All the others still work fine and don't display the lock screen. As an experiment i copied the patched version of LogonController.dll and LogonController.bak from one of the other machines and replaced the those 2 files on the PC where the patch didn't work with the copies. Now it's woking ok and not displayng the lock screen.
Thank you very much. Confirming this is working on 576. It's so frustrating that this is even an issue.
Because me having a piece of life, I don't do pre-release stuff anymore, furthermore Microsoft hasn't released the pdb files for the new stuff, so we are in wain... Now, i'm drunk!! whats youer excuse? Jokinh Sobering up, They probably are gonna change this s**t with the next release BUT wait for the official.
Why do they even force the lock screen? A PC isn't a mobile device and I don't see the point of a lockscreen. Can anyone please explain why they're enforcing a lockscreen so vigilantly? Oh and thanks for the work on making a utility that makes it easy for people to remove this. I'm not sure what to do with the files posted above in the .zip file so I guess I'll just wait for the updated utility. EDIT: Figured it out, had to run as Admin. Thanks again for the help with this stupid lock screen.
Thanks for the quick update! I patched mine with your app for the first time yesterday and an overnight update killed it already so I came here to see what I can do and you already had it fixed. I switched to a new hard drive last week and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out how to kill this damn lock screen again over the last 10 days after the old patching methods had continued on through the updates but didn't survive the upgrade. I absolutely hate things like this that are in the way and take time and effort to bypass. For the life of me, I can't understand why Microsoft is forcing this thing on us with a death grip but I'm glad you have figured it out and have gotten us fixed up. Hunter
@retnuh yep I agree completely with you, but thanks God we have good developers here in MDL so we life is more easy still Welcome to MDL dude