Computer turns off display/goes to sleep when idle for a short time

Greetings, and thank you for reading this thread.

As the title states, my computer will turn off the display or go to sleep (not sure of correct terminology) when I go idle for a short period of time. For instance, I get up to get a glass of water and when I come back, the screensaver is up and I need to re-enter my password. This problem arose immediately after the installing of windows 10 on my PC (upgraded from Windows 8.1 if that helps).


I have already gone to control panel ~> power options but the thing is, even though I've already done that and set the options to "Never turn off display", "Never go to sleep" as shown in the screenshot, my PC still turns off display/sleeps after a short amount of time. Lastly, I hope I posted this in the right section and hope that someone can solve my problem.

Are you changing the correct power plan?
Are you using a desktop or laptop?

Have you checked the Advance Power Settings, there's some settings in there you'll need to change

robgr said:

Are you changing the correct power plan?
Are you using a desktop or laptop?

Desktop, not sure what you mean by changing the correct power plan. I'm changing the plan that I'm using.

gedstar said:

Have you checked the Advance Power Settings, there's some settings in there you'll need to change

I played with the settings which I felt were significant to my problem before posting the thread. Here's what I changed. If I'm missing anything please let me know.

P.S. It looks like you uploaded some files but I'm not sure how to open them.

Is your screensaver starting and requiring a password to resume. To turn off uncheck

Torquemada said:

Is your screensaver starting and requiring a password to resume. To turn off uncheck

This solution worked for me! We overthought it a bit too much. Thank you Torquemada.

Renascentia said:

This solution worked for me! We overthought it a bit too much. Thank you Torquemada.

What does that help? How do we stop the display from turning off after a minute. My settings are for 5 minutes!
I dont use the screen saver anymore. This is so unstable! Windows 10 has had too many issues. I have tried all the troubleshooting, DISM.exe, scannow... nothing works ..it is unreliable. ...very unreliable. Doesnt do what i set it to do. Terrible.