April 27, 20233 yr After reinstalling Windows 11 on a new VM recently, I realized that the settings for timing out the display no longer lock the console as well. It used to lock the console 1 minute after the display timeout. The power setting for my VM is set to never sleep (since the Unraid host doesn't sleep anyway) and no matter what I change the display timeout to, the screen is not locked after waking the screen. In Settings -> Accounts -> Sign-in options, there's the setting If you've been away, when should Windows require you to sign in again?, but the only options are Never or When PC wakes up from sleep. Neither of these options include when the display times out! On my laptop, this setting is selected as Every Time, although it's disabled from changing with the message Windows Hello is preventing some options from being shown. From searching around, it seems like this may have something to do with the VM not supporting S0 low power idle sleep mode. You can see the listed modes with the powercfg /a command. Seems like Microsoft has just broken this functionality for a VM's hardware configuration. The only workaround I've been able to find is to use the old Screen Saver settings to select On resume, display logon screen and set a Wait timeout to 1 minute after the display timeout (to replicate the old lock behavior), with the screen saver itself set to (None). Has anyone else run into this issue and found a better workaround? Edited April 28, 20233 yr by Ancalagon
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