W11 Lock Screen

I stumbled across a bug, when disabling TextInputManagementService

On reboot, Windows will not prompt for password, instead is stuck on Blue Lock Screen.  No info anywhere other than "Dude you're screwed reinstall the OS"

Solution:

Reboot Laptop into Recovery Environment.  For my Lenovo Laptop it was F8

Troubleshoot>Advance>Comand Prompt

C:

cd windows

cd system32

regedit

Note the registry shown is for the Recovery OS not the actual OS that I was using. 

In order to edit the actual registry from within Recovery Mode, one has to load it.

Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE 

File menu> Load Hive

open the registry file called SOFTWARE for the OS in C:\Windows\System32\Config

Name it Temp or whatever

Then navigate to the tree under Temp to edit the actual registry file

Temp\Policies\Microsoft\Windows (The actual registry location is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization)

If not there, create a key under Windows called Personalization

within Personalization create DWORD32 called NoLockScreen and assign value=1

THEN

File menu>Unload Hive

On Reboot Windows should bypass the Lock Screen.

I actually just went into the services and re-enabled TexInputManagementService which is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TextInputManagementService and change start=2

But I had to use the same Regedit procedure within recovery environment since I was unable to config the service from CMD