While you’re here, consider checking out a few of the other screen savers included with the standard Win10 setup: Change them both as appropriate – I like to have a 5 minute delay on screen saver and to uncheck the logon screen display option. Yikes!) and a checkbox that lets you enable or disable “On resume, display logon screen”.
It pops up a window that shows you every setting you need to fix things!Īs you can see above, there’s a wait setting (currently set to 1 minute.
To launch the Change Screen Saver Control Panel, simply click or tap on the icon shown in the search results. It’s way more sophisticated than in earlier versions of Windows and is well worth learning more about to become a power user! Note: If you’re not using Cortana search in Windows, you’re missing out on a great tool. Go to the Cortana search box and search for ‘ screen saver‘: But every 60 seconds of inactivity? Wayyyy too much. I don’t mind logging in every morning, for example. Sure, you can log in again and maybe after 30 minutes or more of inactivity that would make sense. Pretty, somewhat mesmerizing, but you probably just want to get back to what you were doing, watching or reading! Move the mouse or tap on a key, however, and you’re prompted to log in again! For most users nowadays, that’s probably unnecessary and passwords are clumsy security anyway, but… sounds like that’s what you have enabled on your Windows PC, so let’s fix it.įirst off, let’s differentiate between the screensaver and the login prompt on screen. That would ensure that while you’re at lunch, say, someone didn’t pop by and use your computer or access your files and data without permission. LCD (liquid crystal display) screens changed that but screen savers stuck around and remain a part of every major operating system.īecause of security concerns in multiuser environments like a library or corporate office, smart developers tweaked the idea of a screen saver so you could optionally have it also prompt for a password on wake. Remember flying toasters, anyone? Go to an old video game arcade and you’ll see the problem: after enough time with a static image on the display, those pixels would be ‘burned in’ and permanently display a ghost image, even with the screen completely turned off. Back in the old days of CRT (cathode ray tube) computer monitors, computers were designed to turn off screens or switch to a “screen saver” that would vary the image on screen over long periods of time to avoid “burn in”.
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