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It probably has some Xi software that decides you are not allowed to use the laptop 
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Mine makes me login again after a period of activity. I go get a cup of coffee, and when I come back I have to login again. 
Has anyone tried Lenovo support?
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Is your laptop a work laptop? A company I worked for did that for all of the employee's computers. Since I was one of the few that had admin rights it was easy to get around. I wrote an AutoHotKey script to move the mouse cursor location 1 pixel to the right and then move it back to the left once every 20 seconds.
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and this is why I wrote my stayawake routine that runs in the background. Because sometimes I am just staring at my code trying to figure out what the heck I Was thinking and it takes time because who the heck knows what I was thinking when I coded that thing like 3 days/years ago.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I use the Caffeine program to do this. Works quite well.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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I use Caffeine too, works perfectly.
modified 11-Nov-22 12:21pm.
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Or, in my case, three minutes ago 🙄
Gonna offer that code to the OP?
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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This is somewhat similar to a problem I recently ranted about where my Win10 laptop with an AMD R7 (8 cores) puts 4 of them to sleep if I'm disconnected from power.
Everyone thought it was because of my power settings but no matter how I setup those settings -- even setting it for high performance didn't matter. It always set the 4 (extra) cores to paused if I disconnect the power from the wall. The instant I plug cable in they become available (parked).
Here's a snapshot of it[^].
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This is a BIOS setting. I've seen it on other multi-core laptops as well.
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It isn't actually a BIOS setting either. I went down thru the bios and actually turned some options off.
Unfortunately, it really isn't a bios setting.
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Check the performance section. I suspect there's a setting for reduced performance when running on battery.
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Did you check to see if the BIOS has settings for that? I vaguely remember a BIOS on one of my machines that had an option like that.
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Yes, there was one possible BIOS setting and turning it off didn't help.
Thanks
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Check the BIOS for power settings.
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Microsoft Powertoys[^] have a mini tool that handles this.
My thinkpad doesn't suffer from this though.
Maybe they will solve this in an upcoming update.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks. Although must say, I feel that the idea of installing a [Microelephant] utility to circumvent flawed [Microelephant] system settings is pretty disgusting.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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🤣🤣🐘🐘
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Yep, I feel that way after installing Open Shell on fresh installs of Windows.
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I don't know if this will apply to you, but on my older Dell XPS, there were options in the BIOS which were very similar to some power settings - and took preference. I'd go spelunking through that - especially if a colleague's issue went away after an update.
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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It's either an OEM driver thing, shipped as part of the OS installation, or a boot setting thing.
If you can't find it in the boot menu, you can still switch to a DELL OEM image instead.
Avoids Lenovo specific annoyances and still picks up the embedded OEM key.
I figured that out when my dad bought a decently specced Lenovo for just $200.. and the thing either crashed during startup or couldn't use Wifi at all, because the Wifi OEM driver was faulty (and also impossible to remove, update or replace). Switched to the DELL OEM image and everything worked fine.
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Thanks but my
Lenovo Commercial Vantage -> Device
has no such settings, in fact no settings at all.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Have you tried one of those USB dongles that simulates a mouse being jiggled every 15 seconds or so? Place I worked used them to save repeated 5-minute logons while the remote system got it's arse in gear.
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Is it a corp-controlled laptop image, or a device you own?
Laptop OEMs always seem to author so much garbage "value-add" configuration software, that interferes or conflicts with basic OS functionality. Who knows what it could be doing. The first thing I do with any new laptop is reformat and reinstall OS, and drivers. If I can.
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Must be a feature installed by default by Lenovo. Dell has the exact same thing that you can only control through their "Dell Optimizer" application. They call it "Walk Away Lock" under "Presence Detection". It would automatically lock my computer if I wasn't directly in front of it for more than 60 seconds.
A quick search led me to this:
Quote: The human presence sensor is enabled by default. To disable the function:
Open the Vantage app, and then click Device ➙ Smart Assist to turn on or turn off the User Presence Sensing switch. Customize the Zero Touch Login and Zero Touch Lock settings according to your preference.
Restart the computer. When the logo screen is displayed, press F1 to enter the UEFI BIOS menu. Select Security ➙ Intelligent Security to customize detailed settings..
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