Conflict between screensaver and screen timeout on W10

Olivier Franceschi 21 Reputation points
2020-04-07T22:07:51.687+00:00

Hello,
I was working on W10 with this configuration :
Screen timeout : 5 min
Standby time : never
It was working fine.
Then I wanted to activate a screen saver after 1 min inativity. It worked fine.
But then I wanted to lock session and ask for session password at screen saver exit.
After that, the screen saver do not work anymore, as well as the screen timeout.
I did not find any answer yet on Internet to solve this problem. I chekched with regedit but could not find any valuable information.
Can you help me ?

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  1. Sean Liming 4,601 Reputation points
    2020-04-08T02:08:19.95+00:00

    Try the screen saver password and timeout settings in Group Policy (gpedit.msc)

    7184-screensavergpo.jpg

    Also try increasing the time for both and see if it fixes the issue.

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  1. Olivier Franceschi 21 Reputation points
    2020-04-09T09:40:48.65+00:00

    I do not have gpedit.msc on my W10 family edition.

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  2. Olivier Franceschi 21 Reputation points
    2020-04-09T09:43:24.34+00:00

    I am convinced that it comes from an misconfiguration in registry.
    If a log with another account on same computer, it works ok (with no session password at screen saver exit).
    Perhaps I could compare both registry configurations, but I don't know how to do.

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