Windows 8 automatically locks after 1 minute of inactivity

I read on here that the solution to this issue is to reset the security options under User Accounts. I don't seem to have that capability. Is there another fix for this? Or a way I can add that option under User Accounts? I set a
bunch of other settings to a high number and that seemed to fix the issue for a day. Then today the issue came back in full effect even though none of my settings had changed. This is extremely frustrating. Thanks for any help you can provide.
UPDATE: I just wanted to post that after I did the Windows 8.1 Update, this issue went away finally. Thank god.

Thank you for the quick reply but as I stated in my original post, I don't have a reset security options under my user accounts. And I haven't found anything that explains why some people have this option and others don't.
Your second solution also doesn't work. There currently isn't a password required for wake up already. The problem is the lock itself. I have programs that are running in the background that get put to sleep every time the computer locks.
Thanks for trying. Any other suggestions?

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I happens every now and then. Somone dredges up a years old post and askes a question sometimes only remotly related to the origonal thread, often it's more like "I am having this problem too but the fix did not work".
Today a thread from 2005 was resurected on the LabView forum.
Seroulsly 30 days of inactivity shuld be plenty, you can always reference the old thread of you have a simmilar question that was not answerd in the origonal thread.

While a good idea, it probably needs to be fine tuned.
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