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Windows 7 Log Back On

I just rolled out new VMs (VMWare) and all the user machines screens go blank after 15 minutes of inactivity and then they have to put their Windows password back in to log back on.  

Where is this setting changed?  I've gone to display properties already and changed to 60 mins with not success.  I did run the VMWare windows optimization script which might contain this timeout (currently set to 600).
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Disable Power Management on the VMs.

check inside the guest if the powerplan for the Windows 7 is set to set the system to sleep after a specified time.

Open Control Panel > Hardware > Power Options > Change when the computer sleeps

On that page set "Put the computer to sleep" to "Never"
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Hanccocka - Unfortunately I tried that initially with no avail.  
I ran the attached VMWare script but don't believe that to ultimately be the issue.
Where else can I look?
CommandsNoPersonaManagementWin7.txt
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I was able to change it to 2700 seconds and changed the default timeout on the thin client as well.