Windows Locking Itself

Danger Phoenix · 1 Aug 2008 at 17:15

Since yesterday my Windows Vista computer keeping locking itself by going to the logon screen, and requesting a password. It does this after 10 or so minutes of idleness.

Now, I have not changed any settings, screensaver is turned off, and power settings are as they were before.

What could be the problem?

Swordfish · 1 Aug 2008 at 17:18

Danger Phoenix said:
Since yesterday my Windows Vista computer keeping locking itself by going to the logon screen, and requesting a password. It does this after 10 or so minutes of idleness.

Now, I have not changed any settings, screensaver is turned off, and power settings are as they were before.

What could be the problem?

Vista !

Try creating another account as a tester and logon to that and see if the problem happens again. If not then it def is something to do with your account settings.

Danger Phoenix · 1 Aug 2008 at 17:21

Swordfish said:
Vista !

Try creating another account as a tester and logon to that and see if the problem happens again. If not then it def is something to do with your account settings.

I rather that not do that... from my past experience I found that adding and removing users just clogged up the OS and slowed it down, so I never did that with my own machine.

The thing is, none of my system settings have changed... so why has it just started doing this?

Mp4 · 1 Aug 2008 at 17:45

Danger Phoenix · 1 Aug 2008 at 17:46

Mp4 said:
Screensaver ?

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Burnsy2023 · 1 Aug 2008 at 18:00

Danger Phoenix said:
I rather that not do that... from my past experience I found that adding and removing users just clogged up the OS and slowed it down, so I never did that with my own machine.

Your past experience is an anomalous result. There is no reason adding or removing users would slow down a machine (and I do that stuff a lot

Burnsy

Danger Phoenix · 4 Sep 2008 at 23:46

GRR!

The problem had randomly stopped, and I hadn't restarted for 11 days, so I decided to do so today.

The thing has started again and it is really winding me up now!

Danger Phoenix · 5 Sep 2008 at 00:27

For some reason the Windows default settings aren't saving either... every time I open Firefox and Outlook, they ask me that they aren't the default applications :confused:

miker1 · 5 Sep 2008 at 14:10

Danger Phoenix said:
For some reason the Windows default settings aren't saving either... every time I open Firefox and Outlook, they ask me that they aren't the default applications

I assume - no insult intended - that you have virus scanned your machine?
When an "out of the blue" problem starts a deep scan is always a good idea.