krutoturk.blogg.se - Windows 8 screensaver timeout

I'm also an old Wordstar guy (circa 1980's) who started out with CP/M and knows my way around a keyboard, so I don't like "mousing" when I don't have to. I'm seldom at one of the workstations for more than 15 minutes at a time and it was annoying me beyond words to have to always have to put in my PW to wake the damn screen when I hadn't really been away, just attention diverted for a few mins. Ordinarily that wouldn't be an issue, but I work at 2 desks with my chair between them, so I can swing around between workstations. What was occurring, my employer forces a reset to a 10 minute screen timeout in their nightly (yes, nightly, geeze) boot sequence. Not a problem, just something to be aware of. Powercfg looks like a potentially useful tool, but doesn't address the screen saver timer.Īlso for the record, the value used with setscrtimeout.exe is in seconds, not minutes. The registry hack works too, but doesn't take effect until a reboot. That works (you have to download the executable) Type the following command and press Enter: powercfg.Thanks (and a star) goes to twiSSt for the tip about setscrtimeout.exe.

Type the following command and press Enter: powercfg.exe /SETDCVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_VIDEO VIDEOCONLOCK 600 Important: You must change “600” in the command-line with the timeout time you want to use, in seconds.

To change the Lock screen timeout using Command Prompt, do the following:

Type the following command and press Enter: powercfg.exe /SETACTIVE SCHEME_CURRENTĬhanging the Lock Screen Timeout when running on Battery.

Type the following command and press Enter: powercfg.exe /SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_VIDEO VIDEOCONLOCK 600 Important: You must change “600” in the command-line with the timeout time you want to use, in seconds.

Right click on command and choose to run as an Administrator.