Windows 11 Closing Applications Upon Screen Timing Out and After Being Unlocked From Coming Out of Sleep or Screen Timing Out

Question

My Laptop: Samsung Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha

Version of Windows: Windows 11 Home

When my laptop times out or goes to sleep and then I unlock it when I wake it up from the lock screen, I find some of my open applications closed and aren't open anymore. There was even a time that when I unlocked it, one of the PWAs that I had open was asking me if it could close all the open tabs which made me knew that it was trying to close open applications when I unlock it from waking it up from the lock screen when it goes to sleep or times out.

Answer 1

Hi, I’m Nicole, I’ll be happy to help you out today.

There are settings that we need to configure to resolve this concern. Having said that, kindly follow the steps below:

Right-click on Start menu.

Go to Control Panel.

Click on Hardware and Sound.

Select Power Options.

If you are using Under Balanced (recommended), click on Change plan settings. Note: Steps also applies to High performance.

Choose Change advanced power settings.

Under Sleep, click on Allow hybrid sleep and then turn it on.

Once done, go to Hibernate after and then set it to Never.

Click on Apply.

Select OK.

Once done, kindly check if you will still experience the same issue.

Feel free to post back should you have further concern.