After recent update, now require Ctrl-Alt-Del to wake up locked Win11

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Back in the day of NT3.51 or NT4.01, to wake up a locked machine you had to do Ctrl-Alt-Del, but ever since then you could wake it up with just the press of a key or a click on a mouse button. I've been doing that for 20 years.With the most recent Windows update though, I now have to do Ctrl-Alt-Del again. That's inconvenient if I'm carry something with one hand. I deliberately chose a pin where all the numbers were close to each other so I could do a one-handed login. Now I can't.Is there any way to switch the bringing up of the login screen with just a keypress again?

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