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This is really frustrating. It's happened twice now, in the past 24 hours. I'm just doing my work, and suddenly the screen goes black for 2 seconds, flashing black, then goes to the 'metro' screen saver screen, where you start when you first boot the computer on. so it appears that it is logging off. I log back on, and a FEW of my open programs (skype, dropbox, few others) are still there, but most of my programs (wordpad, browser) simply terminated and I have to start them again, restore chrome session, lose work that I didn't save in WordPad, ETC.
Windows 8 Pro here.
Please help, it would be good to get to the bottom of this. 99% sure it's no virus, I'm careful and an experienced computer user and have MSE monitoring things so it can't be a virus.
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Now, that's just nonsense.
Any malware running on your system will have just the same privileges as the user account it's running under.
Full disk encryption would not make any difference.
A non mounted file container would, however, be safe(er)though available in its encrypted state, accessible for decryption attempts.
Please stop hijacking the thread with encryption disinformation. Stick to the topic.
Regards,
Magnus
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I went back to Windows 7. As I keep reading about this being a continuing problem I am glad I did.
Hi.
I am still experiencing this issue.
Is the problem resolved for everyone else or have you just moved back to Windows 7?
Regards,
Magnus
