KeepOn

As a general rule of thumb, it is recommended that you lock your screen when you are away from the computer for privacy and security reasons. While the auto lock is helpful in most situations, the feature might be triggered way too often and unnecessarily.

KeepOn is a lightweight, portable application designed to prevent your computer from auto-locking and running the screensaver.

The application is portable, so all you need to do is download, decompress the archive and run the tool. The app does not come with an interface, but rather sits quietly in the background. Nevertheless, if necessary, you can access it from the system tray to shut it down, especially if you prefer the auto lock to run.

Granted, you can customize the frequency of auto lock via the Windows settings or choose a power plan via control panel. However, you are not using the computer at regular intervals and sometimes, you want the computer to lock and sometimes you don’t.

For the latter situation, you can simply use the tool to make sure that the function doesn’t trigger and hence, hinders your work. In fact, you can enable and disable it as necessary directly from the System Tray and avoid going through the Settings or Control Panel. In fact, if the computer is managed by your organization and you do not have high privileges, then you may not even be able to access the settings at all.

In the eventuality that the auto lock feature is triggered way too often when you are using the computer, thus distracting you from your tasks and you don’t want run through the settings or control panel every time, then perhaps you can consider giving KeepOn a try.