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Our corporate BOFH imposes the screen lock setting with a ridiculously short delay. It's frustrating and counterproductive.

Is there a way to prevent the automatic screen lock? I would assume there is no way to override the policy-enforced setting, but maybe there is a software that mimics user activity.

Just asking before I set up a perpetual mouse wheel. (get it?)

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Just curious what "ridiculously short" is? – Carl Aug 30 '11 at 15:45
There are workarounds like key pressers and mouse movers that will prevent the screen from locking. But are you sure you want to do this? Circumventing IT security is more than likely against company policy, and could be a fireable offense. – Keltari Aug 30 '11 at 16:14
15 minutes. OK, it's not that short ... unless you are at home, not in an open space, and also often working on a second computer. Like I am, so the screen lock is obnoxious. – Gabriel R. Aug 31 '11 at 10:32
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You can create an AutoIt script to either continually press an unused key (e.g. make it toggle the num lock, scroll lock), sleep for a minute or so, and repeat. Alternatively, if you use the keyboard a lot, you could make it move the mouse by a pixel or so in any direction.

If you don't want it continually running, you could also launch the script as a scheduled task (if you have access) to launch after the computer has been inactive for some time.

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Thanks, I'll check it out, seems simpler than a mouse wheel cage setup :) – Gabriel R. Aug 31 '11 at 10:37
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