See How to open advanced settings of a power plan directly in Windows 10. That's it! After doing this, you will see a new item in the Advanced Settings of the power plan inside the Power Options Control Panel.Tip: see how to jump to the desired registry key with one click. To Unlock the hidden display off timeout for the Lock screen in Windows 10, you need to do the following. Turns out, there is a hidden registry setting for this and enabling it even turns it on in the Power Options control panel GUI - the same window where you specify other power related timeouts. When the PC is locked, the normal display off timeout value has no effect on it and you cannot specify the timeout value after which the screen will turn off while you are on the Lock screen. When you lock your computer, again you will see the Lock screen.
It appears before you can pick a user account to sign in. That would make sense as thats where you set the actual timeouts, but whatever. I could have sworn it was under power settings prior. In Windows 10 also, the Lock Screen is an additional screen which is displayed with a fancy background and some useful information like clock and date. Its under 'Accounts' and 'Sign-in Options'. Since Windows 8, Microsoft has added a Lock Screen feature to Windows in addition to the Logon screen where you type the password. I'm certain that since putting the objects into a OU with inheritance denied doesn't fix it means that it's either a Registry Setting, or a GPO setting which is not removed by removing the Policy itself from the object.RЕCOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windоws issues and optimize system performance Increase Unattended Sleep Timeout to 900+.Setting the Registry to Enable Unattended Sleep Timeout setting in registry: Screen saver timeout - Enabled, 900 seconds.Password protect the screen saver - Enabled.User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/Personalization/ Allow Applications to prevent Automatic sleep (plugged in) -> EnabledĬreating a new Power Policy based on High Performance with a higher Sleep Timeout and Screen Lock.Allow Applications to prevent Automatic sleep (on battery) -> Enabled.
Specify the unattended sleep timeout (plugged in) -> 0.Specify the unattended sleep timeout (on battery) -> 0.Computer COnfiguration > Policies > Administrative Templats > System > Power Management -> Sleep Settings.
Put the Computer and User Object in a OU with no inheritance, ran gpupdate and removed the local GPO store from %systemroot%\System32\GroupPolicy\DataStore\0\SysVol\ Run "gpresult /z > gpresult.txt, searched through for any strings matching Sleep, Timeout or Inactivity, and any Values matching "300" (5 minutes in seconds) So far I've tried the following, but nothing has solved it: We're having a problem where a subset of PC's lock after 5 minutes, but the GPO for "Interactive logon: Machine inactivity limit" is set to 900 seconds (15 minutes).