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

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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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Anonymous

2013-04-30T22:00:26+00:00

I have a client who started reporting this very issue a couple of weeks ago. I haven't experienced it myself and am only going off of what he has described to me. It has happened about 6 times over the last couple of weeks. The computer is running Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. I am investigating the problem now, and it appears that the first time it happened it was the day after he installed Google Chrome. It also looks like Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin was installed the next day (the day that he started reporting the issue). I have just uninstalled both to see if that resovles it.

A little more background, the user has had the computer for months with no problems, this just started happening. I checked Windows update and there has not been any updates installed for a couple of months, well before this problem started.

I will post in the next couple of days with status.
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Anonymous

2013-05-13T23:50:22+00:00

Just yesterday, my pc went into a power save and would not get out no matter what I did. Sooooo...I hit the power button and went to re-boot. It would not re-boot and kept offering to "Repair" and "Recover"...but it never got back on track. I finally did a full new installation of Windows 8 and now I keep getting these frequent logoffs without doing anything. My pc cannot stay on longer than a few minutes before it just logs off on its own again.

I tried the Screen Saver option that was written about earlier. It did nothing. This is so damn frustrating and there is absolutely nothing posted here about what the problem is from.

Now there is a 50/50 chance that when the pc logs off on its own that it does not re-start! This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo frustrating. I HATE Microsoft!!
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Anonymous

2013-05-14T12:27:23+00:00

Yep, same errors in my log (how I found thread) though they could be generic for this type of issue.
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Anonymous

2013-05-15T00:07:28+00:00

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.
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Anonymous

2013-06-23T18:31:41+00:00

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.
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