Windows 10: How to stop Windows 11 from bringing up the lock screen when innactive?

So first I must explain.My settings are all set for my screen to never be blocked, my laptop to never suspend, shutdown, hybernate or anything unless I explicitly tell it by pressing the power button or on the windows bar. Yet, after a certain period of innactivity an hour or so I believe I get my lock screen and I'm asked to put my pin to return to my desktop. It's not even full innactivity as I could be afk in a game or rendering something from work, but as long as I'm not getting inputs on that mouse or keyboard, Windows 11 will send me into that lock screen.My programs aren't cosed, and

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How to stop lock screen collage in Windows 11

About a year ago someone asked how to stop the lock-screen from showing a slideshow of pictures in a collage. But the answer was just a repeat of the answer from years prior and it doesn't seem to work or to be relevant to Windows 11 options. The steps given were:

Set Background as Slideshow:
Open Settings.
Click Personalization.
Open Background, and on the drop-down menu choose Slideshow.
It will ask you to choose what pictures to show, choose None, as well as the interval.

Set Lock screen as Slideshow:
Open Settings.
Click Personalization.
Open Lock screen, and choose Slideshow.
For more options, click Advanced slideshow settings

But the first bit changes the background on the screen, not the lock-screen slideshow settings, and I am not even provided a "None" option on what pictures to show. And the second bit tells the reader nothing at all about how to stop Windows from mashing up multiple pictures into a collage during the lock-screen slideshow.

So I'm posting this query to find out if anyone has a solution to stopping the lock-screen slide show from collaging like that? The weird thing is that my spouse's older computer never collages on lock-screen like this. So I figure it's a setting in Windows 11? (I could be wrong.) Is there an accurate answer as to how to turn off the collage but have the slideshow in lock screen? Or is this not actually possible?

 

No Lock screen in Windows 10.

Hi,



Thank you for your response with the current update on the issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps below to set the lock screen option as Windows Spotlight and check if it helps.

1. Right click on Desktop screen.

2. Then click on Personalize.

3. Click on Lock Screen.

4. Try to select Windows Spotlight from the list.

Please get back to us with an update on issue with Lock screen, we will be happy to help.



Thank you.

 

Lock screen woes

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community.

I would suggest you to follow the below steps to try resolving the issue.

Setting the timeout for Lock Screen

• Press Windows + I and select personalization.
  
• Select Lock screen.
  
  
• Select the Screen Timeout setting.
  
• Select the time of timeout you need and check.

Keep us posted if the issue resolves to help you better.