I found advice to use powercfg to change this setting via: powercfg /SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_NONE CONSOLELOCK 0īut this gives "Group policy override settings exist for this power scheme or power setting." with no mention of what setting is controlling it. GPResult showed that the obvious GPO setting is not being applied here: System \ Power Managment \ Sleep Settings \ Require a password when a computer wakes (plugged in) ![]() I found others reporting the same issue, but without reporting a useful fix. Thanks for the suggestion but setting aside that sleep isn't involved here, I checked this setting but found it set to "When PC wakes from sleep" and greyed out, with a message at the top that "Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization. Has anyone found a way to accomplish this? But we want the screen to blank after a relatively short time of inactivity. Presumably we could disable screen blanking and there would be no password prompt. Setting the ScreenSaverGracePeriod registry value to 86400 secondsīut in all cases after the screen is blanked Windows always prompts for the password. Per-computer: Interactive Logon: Machine Inactivity Limit set to 86400 seconds. Per-computer: Interactive Logon: Machine Inactivity Limit set to 0 seconds Per-user: Screen saver enabled with 86400 seconds timeout, but set to not prompt for password on resume We've tried many suggested options to avoid the password entry (via GPO where possible): But we want it to go directly back to the session as it was when the screen blanked, without requiring a password. We've disabled the Windows 10 Lock Screen - after the screen blanks pressing a key or button goes directly to the password entry screen. Sleep is disabled, so this and the related sleep settings aren't applicable. We want the screen to blank after a period of time (via Power
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