Macbook shutting down after a min of not use

When I turn on my macbook on and leave it alone for about one minute a pop up shows saying are you sure you want to turn off you computer with the options to turn off, restard, sleep and canceled and if you don't cancel it quickly it just turn off the computer. It is the same dialogue that show when you have schedule the computer to turn off in the preference pane. I already try deleting the plist of the power settings this happened with or without the power cord, with any combination of setting in power pane and with or without any schedule in the same pane. Any idea how to fix this? is very annoying

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