Windows 10 PC goes to lock screen after 2 minutes

Anonymous
2018-01-08T18:24:24+00:00

Screen saver set at 15 minutes, yet after 2 minutes of inactivity display goes blank requiring "enter" to get lock screen . I must always move my mouse to stay "active." Can't seem to find a solution online that works. 

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*Original title: Windows 10: PC goes to lock screen after 2 minutes*

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Anonymous
2018-11-14T19:39:45+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-02-12T17:40:24+00:00

    I followed the instruction. It did not work and it still timed out after two minutes

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-13T00:58:35+00:00

    Very helpful.  I would never have found that in a million years

    Thank You

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-27T17:17:42+00:00

    This solved the problem, so I am thankful. However, I have to ask how this happened. At one point my PC started to behave like this, and I wonder why. Did somebody make a mistake in on of the updates that I allow to be installed automatically? Was it sabotage, if so by whom, and why? I appreciate that Windows 10 is extremely complex, and here we are changing a parameter that very few people know even exists. No warnings were given and most users might not even notice what was happening. Would this have been corrected in a future automatically installed update?

    More alarmingly, I am not aware of any official Microsoft announcement informing Windos users about the problem and telling them how to resolve the issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-31T23:32:32+00:00

    This was it!!! None of the other answers worked, but yours worked. I guess your "REMEMBER TO UNCHECK "On Resume Display Log On Screen"." Thank you!

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