Windows 7 continuously logging off

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Recently there has been a change on my Windows 7 machine (which I don’t use regularly.) I go to it and find it at the logon screen. I enter my password and the desktop is displayed. If left unattended, it runs for a while with the screen saver. But when I come back to it later, it is again at the password prompt. I have not made any setup changes to have caused this behavior. We go through this scenario again and again, and it never stays logged in. Any ideas?

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Right click on the Dekstop and select Personalize | Screen Saver. Uncheck “On resume, show Logon screen”.

Joe

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Thanks, Joe. I thought “aha!!” when I read your reply. But when I went there, it is already unchecked.

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Then try checking the box, re-boot, uncheck the box, & reboot again. See what happens.

Joe

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Another possibility is the computer is in a relatively short sleep delay and Win7 requires a password on wakeup by default. To check that go into Power Options and the Require a password on wakeup section.

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Well, we haven’t found the right solution yet. I did Joe’s suggestions for checking and then unchecking (with reboots) but that didn’t change the behavior. Now I have check the Power Options and I already had the “require password” unchecked.

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