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Windows 11 has steadily evolved into one of Microsoft's most customizable and security-conscious operating systems yet, and among its defining features is the automatic locking function. While automatic lock is undeniably useful in shared or public environments—helping to keep unauthorized users...

I had to switch to using my wife's laptop temporarily as my usual work laptop is in for repairs and I have run into a problem. I use it for work and I usually keep it on mute when I visit clients but this laptop keeps unmuting when it is locked or the screen turns off after being inactive. I was...

Just got my windows 11 pc... is there any way to set the screen to lock after timed inactivity as in previous versions of windows? I don't wish to pair my phone so dynamic lock is not an option for me

So when my Win 10 laptop goes to sleep because of inactivity, or I put it to sleep, when I then log back in, a session of www.bing.com pops up? I never use Bing. Any idea why this is happening? Ray

Hello, I have my display and sleep settings set to "never". But after 3 minutes of inactivity, the display turns off. It's annoying and what else must I do to fix this?

I am searching a tool which let me define - a certain time of inactivity (e.g. 30 minutes) with no keypress or mouse movements and - another program (or batch script) (with parameters) which is automatically executed after this time of inactivity. Can soemone give me a recommendation for such...

Hi I have my power settings set to the normal settings, monitor turns off after 15 minutes of inactivity, computer goes to sleep after one hour. But what I'm seeing is that my monitor goes black after a few minutes of inactivity. It doesn't shut off, the monitor is still on, but it stops...

I have a very weird problem that I have never encountered before on any computer. After a while of inactivity, sometimes as little as 20 minutes the mouse control goes into a weird state where the pointer sticks repeatedly and it bleeps when it sticks. So if you try and move it across the...

Hi Guys, Basically I have a new Zoostorm PC and only in the past 2-3 months that if I leave the PC for about 5 minutes or so I get a BSOD and it reboots itself. Weird thing is that the PC works fine when using it...it's only after I leave it. Naturally I have disabled it from hibernating...

My PC ignores all power settings and hibernates after approx 5 minutes of user inactivity. It is a Dell Vostro 200, which I had been running successfully on Windows 8 Pro. The problem appears to have been the result of upgrading to Windows 8.1. Regardless of the power scheme settings, the PC...

As you know Win 7 offers options (especially for notebooks) to dim the display after e.g. 15minutes or turn it completely off after 30 minutes of inactivity. Obviously the user can save (rechargable) power with that. But I am particularly interested in possible disadvantages for the hardware...

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I have a sony vaio core i7, 8 gb ram windows 8 pro with hyper-v for windows 8 installed and working. my issue is that all my vms come up fine but after about 10 minutes of inactivity they automatically shut down. I have set all my power options in both the vm and my host as never on all the...

If I let my computer go to sleep on it's own after 30 minutes of inactivity, it wakes up just fine when I hit any keyboard key: Link Removed But if I use the 'Sleep' button from the Start --> Shutdown menu, Link Removed the computer will not resume from sleep. It does turn the computer power...

I configured my Windows 8 machines to use my corporate email (which was on premise Exchange 2010). As soon as I did, it would lock me out after X amount of inactivity and require a password upon my return. ...now, I know, great idea, security is important, yada yada... but I work from home, in...

Hi, Windows 7. After 5 minutes or so the computer defaults to the sign in screen. I am running multiple computers exactly alike in my office, and all are fine except this one. I have gone to power settings and assigned 'never' turn off in all the appropriate places. As soon as I click on the...

My computer is set to go to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity. Within the last week, every time my computer goes to sleep, I receive a BSOD and my computer restarts. It wakes up fine and prompts me for my password (I require a password on start up). How do I fix this BSOD? I have attached...

BSOD with "ntoskrnl.exe" as the main reason... Upgraded from Win 7 Pro (32bit) to Win 7 Pro (64bit) due to upgrading from 3GB to 6GB RAM. BSOD mainly happens after a few hours of inactivity. Sleep, hybrid sleep and hibernate are all disabled. Dell Dimension 9200 (XPS 410) Intel Core...

Hi All, Please help me determine what is causing my laptop to BSOD after a few minutes of inactivity while connected to projector. Attached is the dmp file. Thanks for your excellent work!:redface::redface::redface: Yrich

Hello Everyone, I am helping a friend trobleshoot BSOD on her laptop. The problem is that after inactivity of about 8 minutes the laptop decides to shut itself down. During power up a bsod comes up. I tried to analyze the .dmp file using windbg but cannot make sense of the analysis. Please...