Windows 10 power setting giving random results
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As I've been deploying Windows 10, I'm getting users who are complaining that their computer is locking their computer after 5 or 10 mins.
There is no screen saver set.
I am pushing one thing from GP,
I change Plugged In to :
Turn off display: 10 mins
Put the computer to sleep: never.I have seen some computers ignore the display off setting.
And I'm getting complaints that when the display does go off, and they swear it's more like 5 mins, not 10, that they are required to log back in.
While I personally want them to have to log in, the company has not mandated this, so I need to find out what's going on.
Anyone else run into this?
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The issue is not the screen saver or the screen sleeping.
That is the idle timeout. This was introduced in Windows 8 -
You can create a GPO with this.
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Similar to you I also push power options out.
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This GPO is not set for me.
I checked my local registry, and there is no value
I'll be checking a vocal user's machine this afternoon.
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@Dashrender said in Windows 10 power setting giving random results:
This GPO is not set for me.
Then set it? What is the issue here? Make a new GPO, set this setting, and then apply it.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 power setting giving random results:
@Dashrender said in Windows 10 power setting giving random results:
This GPO is not set for me.
Then set it? What is the issue here? Make a new GPO, set this setting, and then apply it.
Just to make you happy, I checked two clients. one where the policy is in place and one where it is not.
The registry setting is not there in the one location and it is there in the other.
Idle Timeout is a default behavior, so no key means it does default behavior which is to timeout after 60 or 120 seconds i believe in Windows 8. Never checked what the Windows 10 default is.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 power setting giving random results:
@Dashrender said in Windows 10 power setting giving random results:
This GPO is not set for me.
Then set it? What is the issue here? Make a new GPO, set this setting, and then apply it.
The issue is - why is it randomly set for some (possibly) and not others. The default seems to be set to zero - i.e. disabled, but I have some who are claiming that it is set.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 power setting giving random results:
Idle Timeout is a default behavior, so no key means it does default behavior which is to timeout after 60 or 120 seconds i believe in Windows 8. Never checked what the Windows 10 default is.
Holy cow 1-2 mins.. damn!
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In Windows 8 it was disabled by default. The settings in Power Management were respected, either that or the time out for idle timeout was much longer than the power settings were set to.
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And thanks, you have more time today to dig into this.
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Just info for the thread
Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path: \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ -
So I looked a users machine, these settings are all in the default value which is disabled.
So whatever is locking the computer is something else.
Now the power settings does have the monitor set to power off after 10 mins, but that SHOULD NOT make the user have to log back in when they wiggle the mouse.
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A user called, said they watched their machine over lunch, after 20 mins (mind you the setting is 10) her screen went dark. When she pressed a key, we was presented with a logon prompt.
This utter lack of consistency of time is frustrating.
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@Dashrender said in Windows 10 power setting giving random results:
A user called, said they watched their machine over lunch, after 20 mins (mind you the setting is 10) her screen went dark. When she pressed a key, we was presented with a logon prompt.
This utter lack of consistency of time is frustrating.
Require password after power save is a setting.
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