tlh864 wrote:3. On a Windows 10 computer with the same lock behavior after 15 minutes of inactivity, I found that if I brought the display back to life more than 5 seconds after it goes dark, the computer is locked. Meaning that every time I want to check on the progress of the the update, I have to unlock the computer if I don't keep the display active.
Complain to MS for the change to lock the computer. XP didn't do it, but Win7 and higher do. Maybe there's another way to tune it with powercfg.exe, but I don't know (and somehow I doubt it). Anyway, with the new WOU switch everyone should be satisfied.
4. The remark was made "when you can prevent Windows from sending the monitor to sleep in its Power Options" -- Doesn't setting power options of my own not work because WSUS substitutes its own power options?
You're right. I thought that WSUS Offline would only apply its own power scheme when the autorecall function is used, which is not the case.
5. VNC or Remote Desktop are not necessarily viable options, especially if I'm monitoring one computer that's not accessible from the second computer via network.
That's why I said "maybe they can help". I didn't claim that they provide a solution regardless of the situation.
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.
Regards
Dalai