{"id":1081,"date":"2018-07-07T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T07:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=1081"},"modified":"2018-07-07T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T07:03:08","slug":"how-to-change-the-lock-screen-timeout-using-command-prompt","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-change-the-lock-screen-timeout-using-command-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the Lock screen timeout using Command Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is how to change the Lock Screen Timeout on Windows 10 using the command prompt.<\/p>\n

Changing the Lock Screen Timeout when running on AC power<\/h3>\n

To change the Lock screen timeout using Command Prompt, do the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Type in to the search box\u00a0Command<\/strong>.\u00a0 Right click on command and choose to run as an Administrator.
    \n\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Type the following command and press\u00a0Enter<\/strong>:powercfg.exe \/SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_VIDEO VIDEOCONLOCK 600<\/code>Important:<\/strong>\u00a0You must change\u00a0“600”<\/strong>\u00a0in the command-line with the timeout time you want to use, in seconds. In this example 600 seconds = 10 minutes<\/li>\n
  3. Type the following command and press\u00a0Enter<\/strong>:powercfg.exe \/SETACTIVE SCHEME_CURRENT<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Changing the Lock Screen Timeout when running on Battery<\/h3>\n

    To change the Lock screen timeout using Command Prompt, do the following:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Type in to the search box\u00a0Command<\/strong>.\u00a0 Right click on command and choose to run as an Administrator.
      \n      \"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Type the following command and press\u00a0Enter<\/strong>:powercfg.exe \/SETDCVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_VIDEO VIDEOCONLOCK 600<\/code>Important:<\/strong>\u00a0You must change\u00a0“600”<\/strong>\u00a0in the command-line with the timeout time you want to use, in seconds. In this example 600 seconds = 10 minutes<\/li>\n
    3. Type the following command and press\u00a0Enter<\/strong>:powercfg.exe \/SETACTIVE SCHEME_CURRENT<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      Here is how to change the Lock Screen Timeout on Windows 10 using the command prompt. Changing the Lock Screen Timeout when running on AC power To change the Lock screen timeout using Command Prompt, do the following: Type in to the search box\u00a0Command.\u00a0 Right click on command and choose to run as an Administrator. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[9,452,444],"article-tag":[749,750],"class_list":["post-1081","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-commands","article-category-windows-10","article-category-windows-how-to","article-tag-windows-10-ignores-display-sleep-times","article-tag-windows-10-lock-screen-timeout"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":11,"sum_votes":43},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}