Windows 10 PC goes to lock screen after 2 minutes

The setting to fix this is "System unattended sleep timeout" in advanced power settings. (Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings > change advanced power settings).

However this setting is hidden because Microsoft wants waste our time and make our lives miserable. 

To un-hide it, you need to change a registry attribute value data from 1 to 2 at the following registry path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > Power > PowerSettings > 238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20 > 7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0

Full instructions:

1. windows key + R
2. type regedit and hit enter
3. click Yes if asked
4. on registry editor - ctrl+F
5. search for 7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0
6. wait, can take a while to find
7. when found, double click attributes on the right pane
8. change value data to 2
9. hit ok, close registry editor.
10. Right click the start button > power options > Additional power settings > Change Plan Settings > change advanced power settings
11. expand Sleep
12. expand System unattended sleep timeout
13. change both values to zero for never or set your preferred value.

It is amazing how much damage, a few under-performing software team managers in Microsoft, can inflict on an entire planet.

credit: https://appuals.com/windows-10-sleeps-after-1-4-minutes-of-inactivity/

This fixed my problem, it's 2019 and this just started happening after some update and these exact steps resolved it!  Thank you!!

Screen saver settings show Never and 

yet the PC still goes into Lock Screen

F*cking Microsoft.

Have tried all the supposed fixes

and the effing PC goes into lock

screen.  Noticed this wasn't happening

before the latest Windows update

(which, by the way, sucks).

Power options -> never turn off screen

No screen saver 

Etc

I also hate the fact that even if you

put the PC to sleep, Microsoft in its

infinite wisdom ("we know better

than you") reboots my PC and so

I lose all context.  Gee thanks Microsoft.

The setting to fix this is "System unattended sleep timeout" in advanced power settings. (Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings > change advanced power settings).

However this setting is hidden because Microsoft wants waste our time and make our lives miserable.

Finally after weeks of my wife bugging the crap out of me to fix her computer I find someone who knows what he is talking about.  Now my life is much happier.

THANK YOU