Article: If you share a computer with one user or more, make sure you are using the administrator account; otherwise, you won't be able to make changes to the system settings. Find the Start button and click it to bring up the Start menu; the appearance of your Start button will vary depending on your version of Windows, but it should always be in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. If Run isn't listed as a default app, type "Run" into the search bar at the bottom of your Start menu. The pertaining app should appear in the search results. Type "regedt32" without the quotation marks into Run and click OK to bring up the Registry Editor. This program will allow you to make changes to system processes--in this case, the login screensaver timeout values. You can find this file in the upper left-hand corner of the editor. Click to expand it, then click the folder labeled ".DEFAULT" in the resulting drop-down menu to do the same, followed by "Control Panel". Scroll through the right-hand side of the screen to find the value labeled ScreenSaveTimeOut, then double-click it. In older versions of Windows, you will have to select a subfolder of "Desktop" labeled "Details" to view the ScreenSaveTimeOut file. Editing this value will determine when the screensaver goes live; for example, changing the default setting of 900 to 1800 will change the time limit from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
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Log in to your account. Bring up the Start menu. Find Run in your start menu and open it. Bring up the Registry Editor. Locate the "HKEY_USERS" file. Locate and click on the "Desktop" folder to view its contents. Replace the current Value data number with your desired number of seconds.