So choose “Turn screen saver on or off” and a small, old-school Win95 sort of window will pop up. Easy enough, right?Ĭonfusingly, there are two ways you can change the screen saver settings, one of which is in the newer Win10 Control Panel interface, but doesn’t offer the features we want. To do that, use the Windows 10 / Cortana search box and enter “ screen saver“. From a security perspective, there’s a false sense of security about having the screen saver kick in, so let’s change things so your password will be required upon wake. That’s useful if your goal is to just stop screen burn-in from the image if you wander off for the day, but that’s not really much of an issue with modern screens and monitors anyway (at least, not unless you don’t touch your computer for a few months!). Except my wake from screen saver setting has it go immediately right back to the Desktop and what I was in the middle of: I click a button, move the mouse, do just about anything and it’ll wake up. First off, here’s my screen saver, ain’t it pretty? Better, when that prompt shows up, it’s also super easy to switch to a different account, which is what I assume you’d prefer your wife do rather than hack your account! In addition, it’s at the very same spot that you can click a checkbox and enable a password prompt on wake. So I’ll show you how to fix that and set it exactly how you want. Having your screen saver set incorrectly can still prove a big frustration and one that you face every hour that you’re using your Win10 computer.

Honestly, does anyone in the world really need their screen saver to kick on that darn fast? Then again, since it is just a setting, I suppose they might just have it be 1.infinity (but not beyond, of course, since that wouldn’t make any sense 🙂 ) Unless you’re working in a high security facility, it’s hard to imagine why Microsoft lets you set a timeout for the screen saver to 1 minute.

Win 10 screensaver not working