Require a password for sleep and screen saver

I click the box that is tick it becomes untick but when i close my laptop it ask me to enter my password in and then when i got to system prefferences it shows me the box tick when i unticked it.
Please help

Back up all data.
Quit System Preferences if it's running. Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select Services ▹ Reveal from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a file selected. Move the selected file to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Relaunch System Preferences and test. If there's no change, quit again and put the file you moved back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Otherwise, delete the file you moved.

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