By the way, have you tried setting your display timeout to 1 minutes for 100% of the time? I can't imagine having to jiggle the mouse every minute or so if I'm just reading something on the screen where the reading process takes more than a minute.
Such timeout is not meant for general use. Reading something is completely different than installing updates in an unattended manner.
Correct. When I'm installing updates, I'm doing it in an attended manner. Which makes it more like reading something -- every few minutes I'm reading the output to see how far the update process has gotten and whether it has finished. Granted I have to jiggle the mouse within 15 minutes so the computer doesn't go into lockout but that's a lot better than having to do so in less than sixty seconds. And I may be updating two, three or perhaps even five computers at a time. So having the option to disable this option is great news to me.
Without the new option, it would be like as if a vice president at a company mandated a display timeout of 1 minute because that person thought it would be a good idea. I don't get the impression that you would appreciate it if you worked at such a company.
So having the option to disable this option is great news to me. Having worked on programs in the past, I would try to keep in mind when adding new options whether it's good for everybody or just select customers. If the latter, I would make sure that the program would default to behaving normally but allow those who want the alternative to be able to change to that alternative.
Thanks for the all the help.
Tim Hammerle.