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by banana_giraffe 1238 days ago
Normally Windows apps can call SetThreadExecutionState to request the screensaver not come on. Video players do this, as do some other apps. See here[1] for a Powershell script that does just this, for example.

I suppose they could have deployed some group policy that disables this behavior. That'd be annoying if it's the case.

[1] https://blog.backslasher.net/windows-awake-ps.html