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I want to murder my work computer
naporeon
Seattle, WARegistered User regular
Seattle, WARegistered User regular
I started at a new job fairly recently, and with it came what I thought was a fairly nifty touchscreen laptop, running Windows 8.1.
We have a shared office at a startup incubator, so every time I leave my station, I hit WINDOWS+L, to lock my screen. What I've noticed is that, seemingly randomly, my computer will completely lose a session after the screen is locked for a period of time.
When I say "lose a session", I mean that everything I was doing is lost; when I go to unlock the computer, it looks as it does when I boot up, not when I return to a locked session. It will behave as if I am just booting into Windows -- all the programs and tabs I have open will be gone.
Additionally, the same thing happens WHENEVER I plug in my monitor (which acts as an extension of my desktop, rather than a mirror).
What could be causing this, and how do I stop it? I have lost way too much time to this already. GAAAAAH.
We have a shared office at a startup incubator, so every time I leave my station, I hit WINDOWS+L, to lock my screen. What I've noticed is that, seemingly randomly, my computer will completely lose a session after the screen is locked for a period of time.
When I say "lose a session", I mean that everything I was doing is lost; when I go to unlock the computer, it looks as it does when I boot up, not when I return to a locked session. It will behave as if I am just booting into Windows -- all the programs and tabs I have open will be gone.
Additionally, the same thing happens WHENEVER I plug in my monitor (which acts as an extension of my desktop, rather than a mirror).
- Happens at seemingly unpredictable times -- sometimes I can be gone for 20 minutes and be fine, other times it does it after only 5.
- Happens every single time I plug in or unplug my second monitor.
- I have turned off sleep and hibernate.
- I have turned on a screensaver, but set it for a time I rarely reach.
- In screensaver mode, I have "On resume, display logon screen" UNCHECKED. (I was told this might help.)
What could be causing this, and how do I stop it? I have lost way too much time to this already. GAAAAAH.
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http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/298994-windows-closes-all-my-programs-overnight-when-screen-locked.html
The last post says he seemed to fix the problem by disabling google update / gupdate. Might give that a shot?
Hrmmmmmm. That is super promising, but would it explain why this happens every time the second monitor is plugged in or unplugged?
Either way, I've done it.
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Honestly I have no idea, I wish I had more insight into it but in the time I was able to spend googling it that's the most I was able to come up with. I do hope it fixes your issue though. That sounds hella annoying.
This was my initial suspicion, but I don't understand why it still happens with sleep disabled.
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