Hum Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 After a couple of minutes of not touching the mouse/keyboard, W10 does unwanted things. It throws up a background picture, then I have to click to get rid of that and a sign-in screen appears, and then I have to click that to get back to the desktop screen. Very annoying. I have messed with display, background, personalize settings. Nothing helped. I have Sleep and power shut-down settings off. It was shutting down the computer when I was running say, a defrag program. I stopped using a Sleep setting because of this. I am not using a screen saver. I do not want Windows 10 changing the screen or shutting down unless I set the PC to do so at certain times. How can I get back control of Windows ? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted May 30, 2016 Subscriber² Share Posted May 30, 2016 Go to settings/penalization/themes and set a background you are using as the default theme. In that section you can set your screen saver and pointer settings. If you do not want the Defrag thing to run at will go to start/administrative tools/defrag and turn off the auto defrag. You can also turn off unwanted background programs from running by going to settings/privacy/background apps and turn off those you do not want to run all of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 Huh ? I do not run a screen saver. I do not use the W10 defrager. I do not see anything that will stop those background pictures automatically downloading. The screen changes seem to have stopped by itself. The screen was changing while watching videos. I am turning off a lot of the Privacy settings -- hopefully that will help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted June 1, 2016 Subscriber² Share Posted June 1, 2016 Find the setting for slideshow and turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsrcomp Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Settings Personalization Lock Screen Screen Timeout Settings Additional Power Settings Click 2nd item down on the left: Require a password on wakeup Almost at the top, click: Change settings that are currently unavailable Click Don't require a password. Hum 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 ^ I have it set to Picture. No way to turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewarmslime Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Works for me. Do what rsrcomp did. If you select don't require a passoword it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 (edited) I never entered a password when I Installed W10. Under require a password, only Yes is listed. Edited June 1, 2016 by Hum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsrcomp Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Additional Power Settings Click 2nd item down on the left: Require a password on wakeup Almost at the top, click: Change settings that are currently unavailable Click Don't require a password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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