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    Windows 10 power setting giving random results

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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch
      last edited by JaredBusch

      The issue is not the screen saver or the screen sleeping.
      That is the idle timeout. This was introduced in Windows 8

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch
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        You can create a GPO with this.

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch
          last edited by JaredBusch

          Similar to you I also push power options out.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender
            last edited by

            This GPO is not set for me.

            I checked my local registry, and there is no value

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            I'll be checking a vocal user's machine this afternoon.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @Dashrender
              last edited by

              @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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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @JaredBusch
                last edited by

                @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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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch
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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @JaredBusch
                    last edited by

                    @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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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @JaredBusch
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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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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          And thanks, you have more time today to dig into this.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            Just info for the thread
                            Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
                            Registry Path: \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              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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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                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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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @Dashrender
                                  last edited by

                                  @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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                                  • BRRABillB
                                    BRRABill @Dashrender
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                                    @Dashrender said

                                    I'll be checking a vocal user's machine this afternoon.

                                    Those are the worst.

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