The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    No matter what setting I choose, my screen shuts off after a couple minutes?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by akwit, May 7, 2015.

  1. akwit

    akwit Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    24
    Messages:
    755
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I have it set to shut the screen after 10 minutes.
    I also have it set to only require a password after being woken from sleep.

    My screen shuts off after maybe 60 seconds and then the Locked screen pops up and I have to sign in again.

    No matter what setting I choose, this happens.

    Any ideas?
     
    akwit, May 7, 2015
    #1
  2. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    2,354
    Messages:
    4,449
    Likes Received:
    476
    Trophy Points:
    151
    Where are you going to set screen timeouts?

    My guess is that there is probably some other piece of software on your machine that is overwriting whatever setting you think you are putting in. Computers with a bunch of factory pre-installed software tend to have a bunch of useless bloatware installed on them. And nobody would be surprised if a power management tool was one of them.
     
    kent1146, May 13, 2015
    #2