Hi,
Have you set a screen saver time out? You can right click the desktop, then Personalize\Screen Saver, check if you have set a timeout for screensaver, this can also be controlled in group policy
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization, Screen saver timeout
Please check your time for Hard Disk "turn off".
You can find that in Control Panel -> Power Options -> Change plan settings -> Change advanced power settings then in the view tree search for Hard Disk.
Best regards.
- Edited by Cristian Dragos Fedotov Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:55 PM
After 15 minutes, I should add...
Is it possible the cause is similar to the answer in this post?
did everything mentioned in post link, but it is still going to lock screen after 15 minutes. I have everything set to never.....
When I first got laptop, I had this problem. I tried everything, then someone suggested something, and it worked! For several months, I had no problem. Then I did a cleanup of browsing history, etc. on Chrome. Since then, this darn machine goes to lock screen after 15 minutes. Grrr!
Thank you for all of your suggestions! Do you have any more??
Hi,
Seems we all missed an important option:
Please click "Settings" in the right charm bar, then "Change PC Settings"\"PC and device"\"Lock Screen",
Turn off "When my PC is inactive, show the lock screen instead of turning off the screen"
You can change the inactive time with security policy:
Click Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Local Security Policy> Local Policies> Security Options> Interactive Logon: Machine Inactivity Limit>set the time you want.
After you change the policy setting, run gpupdate /force
Hi Yolanda,
Thank you for your contribution. I am a computer illiterate. Where (how) do I go to "Click 'settings' in the right charm bar"?
What is the "right charm bar"?
I have a Windows Vista computer and wants to prevent the computer from reverting to the 'lock' screen after a short time.
Thank you.