Policy

Prompt for password on resume from hibernate/suspend

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategorySystem > Power Management
Supported onWindows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 only

Supported OS tags: Windows2000, WindowsServer2003, WindowsXP

This policy setting allows you to configure client computers to lock and prompt for a password when resuming from a hibernate or suspend state. If you enable this policy setting, the client computer is locked and prompted for a password when it is resumed from a suspend or hibernate state. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control if their computer is automatically locked or not after performing a resume operation.

Internal name
PW_PromptPasswordOnResume
Policy ID
823d5527667c
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Power\PromptPasswordOnResumeREG_DWORD
1
0

Policy elements

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