I have an Acer netbook with Windows 7 Starter, as I said, and it keeps locking itself (as if I'm hitting Win+L) after 5 minutes of me not using it.
What's causing it is the screen saver setting. I've set it to %26quot;none,%26quot; so no screen saver comes on, but what happens is it just locks. It displays the log-on screen after 5 minutes, no matter how many minutes I set it to wait for. It can have %26quot;60%26quot; in the box, but it locks after 5. And when I turn the computer off, it resets itself to say 5 minutes.
How can I fix this?
Acer netbook with Windows 7 Starter keeps changing screen saver settings?
I have the same computer (but not a notebook)
Go to start
Go to control Panel
Go to appearance and personalization
Go to change screen saver
A screen should pop up and say Screen Saver Settings
Choose a screen saver like mine is the bubbles one
on the wait Put 99 minutes
next to it, it should say Resume display Logon screen
if you hate putting your password Just Unclick that
It should work
Than Click Apply
after apply click ok
I hope I helped