automatic timed user log out when not used

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can anyone tell me how to stop my computer logging me out of my account and
returning to the welcome login screen when i leave it for 10 minutes without
using keyboard or mouse - irritating having to keep plugging in my login
password but i need to retain it to stop the kids messing up my work.
 
In zzz had this to say:

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can anyone tell me how to stop my computer logging me out of my
account and returning to the welcome login screen when i leave it for
10 minutes without using keyboard or mouse - irritating having to
keep plugging in my login password but i need to retain it to stop
the kids messing up my work.
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Go to the desktop
Right click
Select properties
Click the Screen Saver tab
Untick the option to ask for a password on resume

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
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whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes
 
In zzz had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
you are a star - thjankyou, appreciated the quote too,
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Why thank you. :)

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This has been annoying me as well....kept
thinking it had to do with hibernate mode but it doesn't. Much appreciated!
 
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