My windows 8 is randomly logging off on its own, bug?

Anonymous
2012-10-31T12:06:22+00:00

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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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-19T02:03:40+00:00

    Three tines today alone. I have done everything they suggest. Whille I am a tab power user it was ever thus and my computer can certainly handle that.

    When it decides it will shut down to install updates even though when we could control that I had notify me and let me choose that is aggravating enough but this is insane especially since the worst thing 8,1 brought is the decision I have to log in with my MS account each time. I live alone. My computer is always secured. I have never pw protected my computer as I have to access it quickly for work (which is pw protected)

    Please let us control both our computers and how much we want out internet identity integrated again. I do not like the one account all of this as I do work that requires some degree of protection of exactly that. (Nothing criminal just there are reasons to not want 80 percent of what I do on my web known to MS)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-02-01T10:58:59+00:00

    Unfortunately after being absent for almost 2 months, it's just happened again :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-04T18:55:18+00:00

    This is a glitch that just goes on and on and on....with no consistent answer in sight. This started with me after a few months with a new PC and NOTHING I did worked.  Best advice I got from this forum was to switch to Windows 7 and that is what I did.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-03T16:51:11+00:00

    On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:36:54 +0000, Phoenix2000 wrote:

    This is also happening to me, but i've found the application causing this: Foxit PDF reader.
    Not always, but sometimes, when i open a PDF with that application, the screen goes black, then flickers a bit, and then shows the logon screen: i've been logged off.

    Same with Windows 8 and 8.1! 

    Just a quick comment: I've been using Foxit Reader for years, and I've
    never seen such behavior from it. Something else is wrong on your
    system.

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