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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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-27T05:54:45+00:00

    whats the **** is going on....i installed 4 time windows 8 but still error logging out after 2 or 3 days working well but same error...i dont no what is issue... window 8 design is so beautiful but i much worried about this issue...

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-03-28T23:24:17+00:00

    After spending close to 10 hours on the phone with Microsoft Technical Support, my problem has finally been fixed. The problem is a result of a parameter selected for screen savers, even though I do not and have not used screen savers on this computer.

    From the control panel, select personalization; from the personalization screen select screen saver on the bottom right.  On the screen saver settings screen,  the selection box for " On, resume, display logon screen" needs to be set to blank. 

    I hope this is helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-04-09T19:28:56+00:00

    Oh no....I have to report, the 'resetting itself' thing just happened (for the first time), right in front of my eyes, like it does (sudden screen going blank white, flashing epileptically like you've just been owned by a virus or something), just like before.....since 'upgrading' to the windows 7 explorer.exe :/.....still, I do report, in general marked improvement with windows explorer not shutting down on me when memory starts to go a bit thin! So...ongoing story...until it is FIXED!!!!!!

    @SLK_2013, obviously your problem was not the same as mine. I had that screen saver setting unticked already...

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-04-10T09:24:36+00:00

    After spending close to 10 hours on the phone with Microsoft Technical Support, my problem has finally been fixed. The problem is a result of a parameter selected for screen savers, even though I do not and have not used screen savers on this computer.

     

    From the control panel, select personalization; from the personalization screen select screen saver on the bottom right.  On the screen saver settings screen,  the selection box for " On, resume, display logon screen" needs to be set to blank. 

     

    I hope this is helps.

    I checked the setting, it's 100% certain not the cause since it wasn't enabled at all. Furthermore I also see the flashing periodally or I see the Windows acting weird sometimes (colors and stuff). I'm using intel HD4000 graphics. Not sure what zorpo and others are using..

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-04-11T12:08:19+00:00

    It just happened a SECOND time after only a day...this is rare :(. (and again I'm still just using the windows 7 explorer.exe...)

    I'm starting to wonder whether it's a GPU thing...it looked kinda like it this time, I was doing a bit of quick window minimising and opening and it seemed to respond to that...

    And also, I didn't really have the PC ram usage stacked up like crazy so I dunno what's hapening!

    Ok, yes I have a big chrome session with about 200 tabs open, but nothing else much open at the same time and with my crazy computer specs that's not much (only half of what I can get up to on the desktop) and it wouldn't have reached the full ram, that's for sure. Or even 75%.

    And, after all, it's always the SCREEN that goes haywire, isn't it!! Maybe it's a video card thing, but I wouldn't have a clue how to pinpoint the problem...

    I'm using a 15" retina macbook pro (maximum specs, meaning 16GB ram and some insane quadcore CPU), with windows 8 enterprise x64 on it.

    I use the bootcamp default drivers (latest, 5.0), Windows uses the Nvida GeForce GT 650M GPU (not intel built-in graphics).

    Like, I guess I could find some way to uninstall the nvidia driver and force windows to use the inbuilt Intel HD Graphics 4000 ni the retina pro, but why do that? I think that'll only make things worse :/.

    GAH :((((((((((((((((((.

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