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by pmontra 3173 days ago
How about leaving it open, (auto) locking the screen every time you leave the pc? It should be as safe, if you trust the screen locker.
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BoorishBears 3173 days ago
The main problem was the auto locking, I set my PC to go to sleep after 10 minutes (it's a really power hungry setup)
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pmontra 3173 days ago
I'm not familiar with Windows nowadays. If it wakes up locked and asking for a password you are fine. That's the setup of my Ubuntu laptop.

Lock the PC, leave it on a desk, it goes to sleep. You come back, wake it up, type in the password to unlock. The weakest link is remembering to lock the pc. Auto lock after some minutes is ok only at home.

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BoorishBears 3173 days ago
The password manager locks when the computer goes to sleep, I'm not sure that it's optional behavior (and if it was I'm not sure I'd want to disable it)
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