Personalization Enable or Disable Lock Screen Background Motion in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable lock screen background motion for your account or all users in Windows 11.

The lock screen (aka: welcome screen) is the screen you see at startup and when you lock (Win+L) the PC. You will need to dismiss the lock screen to to see the sign-in screen and sign in to Windows.

If your Windows 11 device (ex: tablet) has an accelerometer, the lock screen background by default will pan around a still image as you physically move your device.

If you prefer a traditional static lock screen background image, you can prevent lock screen background motion.

The lock screen background motion feature is only available if your Windows 11 device (ex: tablet) has an accelerometer.

1 Open Settings (Win+I). (see screenshot below)

2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Lock screen on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Turn On (default) or Off Make the lock screen image react when I move my PC for what you want on the right side. (see screenshot below)


4 You can now close Settings if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

Local Group Policy Editor will only be available in the Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Three below instead for the same policy.

1 Open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).

2 Navigate to the policy location below in the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor. (see screenshot below)



3 In the right pane of Personalization in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Prevent lock screen background motion policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4 Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you would like to do.

This is the default setting to allow users to use Option One.

This will disable and remove the Make the lock screen image react when I move my PC setting in Option One.

7 Close the Local Group Policy Editor.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.

This is the default setting to allow users to use Option One.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will disable and remove the Make the lock screen image react when I move my PC setting in Option One.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink