Solved Sleep / Log out Problem

philgrek · Oct 7, 2010

I'm so frustrated with this problem already, as I've gotten no answers from anywhere else I've looked.

Vista is regularly "sleeping" / logging-out (I'm not really sure what it's doing) too often!! At 2 minutes of mouse/keyboard inactivity it jumps to the password screen. It doesn't shut down, or hibernate. I can't find this setting anywhere. I'm running off a Gateway FX Series Laptop and have all the power settings set to NOT sleep and I have it set NOT to require a password regardless. As annoying as it is for general use, it happens quite frequently when I'm watching 2 min+ video (i.e. Movies, etc).

I hope I gave enough information for this problem :-/ But am more than willing to provide more if needed. I'm a computer science undergrad and feel just stupid not being able to figure this out myself.

Thanks for the help!!

Brink · Oct 7, 2010

Hello Phil, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might double check to see if it may be that the On resume, display logon screen is not unchecked in your screen saver settings.

Another option to check the Multimedia settings -> When sharing media in your advanced Power Plan settings to have it set as Prevent idling to sleep.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

philgrek · Oct 18, 2010

The screen saver was set to None and the password requirement was set, although it was grayed out so I didn't think I was able to change it, but after selecting a different screen saver I was able to uncheck the password setting and go back to having no screen saver. So simple that I'm embarrassed I asked. Thanks for the help.

Phillip

Brink · Oct 18, 2010

You're most welcome Phillip. Never be emabarrassed to ask a question. We do not know unless we ask.

Solved Sleep / Log out Problem

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