Hitting Enter Key Twice on Lock Screen Sign in, Opens Edge Browser?

pacificSurf · Saturday at 4:08 PM

I frequently just hit the enter key twice on accident (because i mistype the password then have to hit enter again to clear it and make another attempt, and im doing it quickly).
But Why is Edge opening up?

Yes, I could try to just hit it once instead, or not use the start menu to put my computer to sleep. But this is just my personal usage case that may not apply to you, but still dont understand why its doing this.

To replicate:
1) open start menu and press lock from the start menu. You have to do it from start menu so that start menu is open when you log back in.
2) type password
3) Hit Enter, Enter (fast)

I see my desktop now but edge browser opens up. But if you just open the start menu and hit enter key, nothing happens. Its only when your coming from the lock screen.

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KevTech · Saturday at 4:36 PM

pacificSurf said:
open start menu and press lock from the start menu.

I normally just hold down the Windows key then press L to lock the computer.

I tried what you wrote but pressing enter twice on the lock screen just showed my password hint.

pacificSurf · Saturday at 4:48 PM

KevTech said:
I normally just hold down the Windows key then press L to lock the computer.

I tried what you wrote but pressing enter twice on the lock screen just showed my password hint.

Even when you type the password into the field box and hit enter, and enter again? Because the first enter should automatically register it as correct password and log you in

Well I'm not actually just locking it, I'm doing a sleep. So I put it into sleep and then when it wakes up it's on that lock screen so I always do that sleep function from the start menu

spapakons · Saturday at 7:11 PM

Could that be a shortcut to open the default browser and search for something? Similarly on my Xiaomi Android phone if I long press on the dot button the search or Ask Gemini opens.

Edwin · Saturday at 7:37 PM

pacificSurf said:
But Why is Edge opening up?

Is Edge the first shortcut pinned to your Start Menu?
If you left the Start Menu open, then hit Enter twice, it'll highlight and execute the first pinned shortcut...

Marie SWE · Saturday at 7:50 PM

pacificSurf said:
To replicate:
1) open start menu and press lock from the start menu. You have to do it from start menu so that start menu is open when you log back in.
2) type password
3) Hit Enter, Enter (fast)

and what happens if you....

1) open start menu and press lock from the start menu. You have to do it from start menu so that start menu is open when you log back in.
2) type password
3) Hit Enter and wait a few seconds (without touching the mouse or anything between step 3) and 4) ..)
4) then hit enter again the second time.

If this does the same, then its probibly that the edge shortcut on the desktop or on the taskbar that is "highlighted" so it start edge up on enter.

dacrone · Saturday at 10:12 PM

Don’t press enter 2x…

If it’s a recoil/ key sensitivity issue, either:

click the button after typing the password
Or
press tab, space after typing the password
Or
create a scheduled task to terminate Edge at user unlock and delay it for a few seconds (so edge can launch then terminate)

Edwin said:
Start Menu

This. The start menu opening at unlock has been either a glitch or failed design by Microsoft for a long while now. It annoys tf out of me.

Edwin · Sunday at 4:56 AM

dacrone said:
... a failed design by Microsoft for a long while now. It annoys tf out of me.

I think it is by design..., the whole 'return to the state you left it' thing.
The SAB Menu doesn't behave that way though.

pacificSurf · 2026-07-15T00:29:48-0400

Edwin said:
I think it is by design..., the whole 'return to the state you left it' thing.
The SAB Menu doesn't behave that way though.

But the prior state was not with Edge open?

Marie SWE said:
and what happens if you....

1) open start menu and press lock from the start menu. You have to do it from start menu so that start menu is open when you log back in.
2) type password
3) Hit Enter and wait a few seconds (without touching the mouse or anything between step 3) and 4) ..)
4) then hit enter again the second time.

If this does the same, then its probibly that the edge shortcut on the desktop or on the taskbar that is "highlighted" so it start edge up on enter.

Tried that, nothing happens. See 2nd video below.

Edwin said:
Is Edge the first shortcut pinned to your Start Menu?
If you left the Start Menu open, then hit Enter twice, it'll highlight and execute the first pinned shortcut...

Yes it is. I could try unpinning it. But if being pinned there in 1st position is the cause, i would think edge would also open when I open start menu and hit enter. Or when I do what's shown in the 2nd video below.

spapakons said:
Could that be a shortcut to open the default browser and search for something? Similarly on my Xiaomi Android phone if I long press on the dot button the search or Ask Gemini opens.

Possibly, I dont know what shortcut or where that is being controlled.

Pressing it twice. Opens Edge:

Pressing it once, the waiting and pressing it again. Does NOT open Edge:

pacificSurf · 2026-07-15T00:37:44-0400

Update:
@Edwin 's theory on being pinned was the cause of it.
Still strange though that when I hit enter after logging in (in the 2nd video above), or just opening the start menu and hit enter, it does NOT open edge. Only when coming in from the lock screen doing a 2X enter......

I unpinned edge, and then the next pinned app auto opened from the lock screen. So I unpinned Everything now! That should solve it hopefully.

spapakons · 2026-07-15T01:41:01-0400

Simple question: Why don't just press ENTER once? Why twice? Accidentally?

Marie SWE · 2026-07-15T14:27:07-0400

pacificSurf said:
Tried that, nothing happens. See 2nd video below.

Then you might have found a bug.... or... as they say when they dont want to admit bugs.. its a feature. *lol*

spapakons · 2026-07-15T15:37:31-0400

You could create a PIN and configure it to automatically login when the last digit is pressed without having to press ENTER.

See this Google AI reply:

dacrone · 2026-07-15T15:45:20-0400

It does this because the start menu is a process so since you put it to sleep via the start menu, it restores it to the open state at unlock. Aside from the options I mentioned above, you can also:

Use a batch or ahk to sleep the pc and pin it to the taskbar,
or
if you really want it on the start menu, you can script it to send ESC to close the start menu and then execute sleep.. that will also prevent it from being opened at unlock

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