windows 8 on macbook locks after 2 mins despite high performance settings

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Published on 2014-06-09T07:00:15Z Indexed on 2014/06/09 9:29 UTC
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I am running my Macbook Prop as a Windows 8 machine using bootcamp and for some reason, when I leave the keyboard/mouse alone for 2 mins it locks the PC (i.e. goes to the lock screen).

I have (of course) checked the power settings and I can assure you that it is not set to these settings.

I did notice that when I added my work's Mail Account the computer asked me to accept some group policy settings, which I did, so I suspect that this is a group policy setting, but I cannot find it.

Can someone help?

P.S. I have searched these forums first, and this is different to the PC going to sleep once locked, this is locking while logged in after 2 mins.

Thanks.

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