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What was the exact policy you set? &nbsp;Was it for the power settings or the screensaver?<br />
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Run gpresult /V from the command line on the user machine to see if the policy applied.
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What was the exact policy you set?  Was it for the power settings or the screensaver?

Run gpresult /V from the command line on the user machine to see if the policy applied.

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Before she had no screensaver timeout so I know it took the update. &nbsp;It was for the screensaver.
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Before she had no screensaver timeout so I know it took the update.  It was for the screensaver.

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Did you verify it actually times out early?
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Did you verify it actually times out early?

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She timed it because it seemed to be timing out too fast.
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She timed it because it seemed to be timing out too fast.

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I set the computers to timeout after 15 minutes but one user says it is timing out much faster, like 5 minutes. &nbsp;What could be causing this? &nbsp;She is on Windows 7.
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I set the computers to timeout after 15 minutes but one user says it is timing out much faster, like 5 minutes.  What could be causing this?  She is on Windows 7.

group policy screensaver timeout

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