screen saver doesn't work if disconnected

I have my screensaver set to start after 6 minutes of inactivity. It works fine if I'm offline (I'm the only user on this pc). But he no longer lights if I'm connected even though I have no specified program such as running and the Task Manager shows nothing is running on the Applications tab.

So what's happening?

Idle means no user activity and the CPU and hard disk activity must be below certain thresholds. Applications tab displays only the programs you started as a user, process presents programs and services that are running in the background. If you disconnect of some people are running is no longer and then the activity falls under the threshold of "idle". A - V scanning and indexing of files from the hard drive are a couple of things happening in the background that can cause what you see.

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