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

I'm glad others still seem to have this problem. As the OP, I can say that the problem still pervades my daily/weekly PC use, and it's always consistent with how and when it happens.

I have yet to upgrade to 8.1 - it's a bit of a complicated process as I'm on a Macbook Pro with bootcamp and I have to research that particular process to make it all smooth etc. Fingers firmly crossed for that one!!! I hope to upgrade to it within the next 10 days.

I'm still concluded from my observations that it's 'memory management', as it always happens when I've got some browser with 400 tabs or just some other combination of 'apparently too many programs' filling up the memory (yes, apparently being too much for my rMBP's 16GB of memory). Windows 7 would just crawl to a halt and I'd have to close things off and deal with the slowness myself, which is what I WANT in a power-user desktop OS environment, NOT (what I think is) dumbed-down 'look so easy, we'll handle it ALL for you' tablet design, where they just restart the OS as the 'solution' and you lose all your work and open files - down the drain.

If others have 8.1 and have noticed the problem going away or remaining, please do chime in - I'll certainly let people know if 8.1 seems to still have the problem or not.

I should say that I also recently updated my nVidia driver to the latest (quite an upgrade), not sure if that would help at all - I just thought since the screen goes haywire/flashing to black screen when 'it happens', maybe video card is something to do with it.....I don't think it is though, but I'm mentioning it for completeness.

Thanks

I'm on Windows 8.1 now. I also upgraded all possible videocard drivers (no idea if that is related). So far this issue has not occurred, so I keep my fingers crossed... It's only a few days that I'm on 8.1.

The strange thing is, it always/mostly happened when I crossed past half of my memory total. I have 32 GB. As long as I stay below 16 GB in use, this issue seemed to stay away. I'm very curious what will happen now on 8.1.

I was thinking it was the memory, but I switched memory already once and it had the same behavior.

any resolution to this issue ... I've been having this since upgrading from windows 7 pro

I experienced exactly the same problem. This is so horrible. I hate this. I just bought a new laptop 2 days ago with 4 GB RAM.

I am just browsing (only 10 to 20 tabs) and I get a message saying Windows lacks memory.

Task Manager says only 70% is used (70% ! With only Firefox opened taking 200MB of RAM ???)

Well anyway, if I ever happen to launch another program, I will surely get logged out. This is so **** me off...

It already happened 3 times today and twice yesterday.

Is it a gimmick to make me buy more RAM ?!

Well, I'm switching back to Windows 7 and the marvelous Windows XP, which I continue to use for some old piece of software that doesn't work anymore on Win7 nor Win8.

I finally was able to stay logged in but only if I start the pc in Safe Mode. Crazy! So far it's been 20 mins without it logging me out.