Log out ?

A friend of mine just got a new Win8 machine and how do you like that,
he likes those tiles.

I decided to have a look at it as he did have one minor problem I was
not able to sort out.


In his options he has sign-in set to "no password needed"...


and in power options he has "sleep" set to "never".


The problem is that after one minute of inactivity the machine goes to
sleep and he's automatically logged out. He needs his password to get
back to the desk top.

I tried a few things such as setting the logout time to 1000 minutes
and also turned off any "power saver" options but to no avail.


What's the deal with this?

philo wrote:
A friend of mine just got a new Win8 machine and how do you like that,
he likes those tiles.

I decided to have a look at it as he did have one minor problem I was
not able to sort out.


In his options he has sign-in set to "no password needed"...


and in power options he has "sleep" set to "never".


The problem is that after one minute of inactivity the machine goes to
sleep and he's automatically logged out. He needs his password to get
back to the desk top.

I tried a few things such as setting the logout time to 1000 minutes
and also turned off any "power saver" options but to no avail.


What's the deal with this?

There are several articles here you could work through,
but no mention of a 1 minute sleep issue.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...8-startup.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...e-disable.html

The Power control panel, defines the current schema.
I don't expect messing with that, would cure your
phantom sleep problem, which just doesn't make sense.

The OS will shut down in 60 seconds, if certain
security subsystems are not working (some early malware
could trigger that). But that would be an entirely different
set of symptoms. You say it just went to sleep, and that
isn't a security response. Powering off would be.

The last post here, suggests an OEM software addition
can mess up the regular system stuff. And while not
for this particular issue, I can attest to that fact
on my Acer laptop, where the backups were screwed up
by software that Acer added. Maybe you could take
a quick review of installed programs, to see if anything
a bit cheesy has been added.

http://www.eightforums.com/general-s...urn-off-3.html

Paul

On 12/20/2014 04:56 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
A friend of mine just got a new Win8 machine and how do you like that,
he likes those tiles.

I decided to have a look at it as he did have one minor problem I was
not able to sort out.


In his options he has sign-in set to "no password needed"...


and in power options he has "sleep" set to "never".


The problem is that after one minute of inactivity the machine goes
to sleep and he's automatically logged out. He needs his password to
get back to the desk top.

I tried a few things such as setting the logout time to 1000 minutes
and also turned off any "power saver" options but to no avail.


What's the deal with this?

There are several articles here you could work through,
but no mention of a 1 minute sleep issue.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...8-startup.html


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...e-disable.html


The Power control panel, defines the current schema.
I don't expect messing with that, would cure your
phantom sleep problem, which just doesn't make sense.

The OS will shut down in 60 seconds, if certain
security subsystems are not working (some early malware
could trigger that). But that would be an entirely different
set of symptoms. You say it just went to sleep, and that
isn't a security response. Powering off would be.

The last post here, suggests an OEM software addition
can mess up the regular system stuff. And while not
for this particular issue, I can attest to that fact
on my Acer laptop, where the backups were screwed up
by software that Acer added. Maybe you could take
a quick review of installed programs, to see if anything
a bit cheesy has been added.

http://www.eightforums.com/general-s...urn-off-3.html


Paul



Thanks. The owner of the machine is pretty savvy, but if he does not get
it sorted out by the next time I see him I'll investigate further.


This is a tower so he is not worried about power savings

philo wrote:
A friend of mine just got a new Win8 machine and how do you like that,
he likes those tiles.

I decided to have a look at it as he did have one minor problem I was
not able to sort out.


In his options he has sign-in set to "no password needed"...


and in power options he has "sleep" set to "never".


The problem is that after one minute of inactivity the machine goes to
sleep and he's automatically logged out. He needs his password to get
back to the desk top.

I tried a few things such as setting the logout time to 1000 minutes
and also turned off any "power saver" options but to no avail.


What's the deal with this?

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html

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A

On 12/21/2014 11:00 AM, A wrote:
philo wrote:
A friend of mine just got a new Win8 machine and how do you like that,
he likes those tiles.

I decided to have a look at it as he did have one minor problem I was
not able to sort out.


In his options he has sign-in set to "no password needed"...


and in power options he has "sleep" set to "never".


The problem is that after one minute of inactivity the machine goes to
sleep and he's automatically logged out. He needs his password to get
back to the desk top.

I tried a few things such as setting the logout time to 1000 minutes
and also turned off any "power saver" options but to no avail.


What's the deal with this?

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html





Thanks. I saw a similar "help page" and tried most of the suggestions
but probably not all.
Won't see the guy until after Christmas but will try some more things
then (if he does not figure it out himself)

On 12/21/2014 10:58 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2014-12-20 5:28 PM, philo wrote:
A friend of mine just got a new Win8 machine and how do you like that,
he likes those tiles.

I decided to have a look at it as he did have one minor problem I was
not able to sort out.


In his options he has sign-in set to "no password needed"...


and in power options he has "sleep" set to "never".


The problem is that after one minute of inactivity the machine goes to
sleep and he's automatically logged out. He needs his password to get
back to the desk top.

I tried a few things such as setting the logout time to 1000 minutes
and also turned off any "power saver" options but to no avail.


What's the deal with this?

By default, W8 will shuts down the display, so check those settings too.

HTH




Will keep checking. He does not mind if the display blanks out...he just
does not want to keep entering the p/w

Just as I thought, my buddy figured it out before I got there.


He just did a Google search and got a registry hack.

There was no way to adjust through the GUI...

looks like there are still a few bugs left in Win8.1

=?UTF-8?B?cGhpbG/CoA==?= wrote in news:m7l7fk$5ra$1
@dont-email.me:

looks like there are still a few bugs left in Win8.1



Tell me which OS you use that has no bugs. I want to switch over.

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Pat

email: phartzATcoxDOTnet

philo wrote:
Just as I thought, my buddy figured it out before I got there.


He just did a Google search and got a registry hack.

There was no way to adjust through the GUI...

looks like there are still a few bugs left in Win8.1

I did it with the GUI. I posted how in another message.

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A

On 12/27/2014 08:42 AM, A wrote:
philo wrote:
Just as I thought, my buddy figured it out before I got there.


He just did a Google search and got a registry hack.

There was no way to adjust through the GUI...

looks like there are still a few bugs left in Win8.1

I did it with the GUI. I posted how in another message.




Yep, we did follow the instructions and all settings done through the
GUI were correct, but the system ignored them.

Anyway, it's fixed now.