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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
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Why does Windows Temporarily Revert?
Whenever I leave my computer on for long period of time, sometimes 4+ hours, when I come back to the welcome screen, it says I'm "logged on" even if I had 5 programs running before or something. I log on, and any program that wasn't running already is set back to its complete defaults. I open Outlook, it asks for a mail server. I open Internet Explorer, and it goes to the first home page I had. When I reboot, everything's completely normal. And if this happens again, whatever things in this secondary mirror of programs comes back. Does anybody know what the heck I'm talking about, and how to fix it?
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Jul 21st, 2004 02:50 AM |
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Clovie
Gender: Female Location: lost in your dreams |
never happened to me.
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Jul 21st, 2004 08:12 AM |
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yerssot
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problem could be situated in you not actually being logged on, but my "knowledge" about this subject is very limited
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Jul 21st, 2004 10:10 AM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
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Possibly, but Windows shouldn't just do that whenever it feels like it... it should stay the way I put it
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Jul 21st, 2004 06:45 PM |
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yerssot
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hey, it's windows, it's your own problem
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Jul 21st, 2004 06:46 PM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
There can only be CHAOS! |
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:19 PM |
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yerssot
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checked the options?
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:32 PM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
There can only be CHAOS! |
Which options? The "Revert to factory default after a set time of being idle" options? Haven't found them...
I've looked around, but there's nothing I can find that would cause this.
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:36 PM |
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yerssot
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just in general of course
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:37 PM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
There can only be CHAOS! |
In that case, I've found nothing.
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:44 PM |
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yerssot
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well, to me it sounds like you aren't logged in
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:46 PM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
There can only be CHAOS! |
Not logged into what?
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:49 PM |
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yerssot
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windows
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:50 PM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
There can only be CHAOS! |
I meant I've found nothing that would affect my computer in that way or fix the problem in the options, trust me, I'm logged in
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:51 PM |
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yerssot
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but if you re logged in, how come it's back in original setting?
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:52 PM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
There can only be CHAOS! |
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Here's how it goes.
*Sits down and is on computer*
*Goes away, turns monitor off, leaves computer on welcome screen while still logged in with programs running*
*Comes back to computer, "X Programs Running" has changed to saying "Logged on"*
*Type in password*
*Any programs that were not already open act like this is the first time running them; Microsoft Word asks for activation, Internet Homepage is the factory set VAIO page, some desktop items are removed, some are added, desktop is gray, XP Theme changed from Silver to Olive or Blue, Toolbars missing on Browser, etc...*
And all of that goes back to the way I had it with a restart, but it shouldn't do that... and why is it so forgiving that it's back the way it was with a simple restart?
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:57 PM |
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yerssot
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I stick to my point still... untill raz says what's wrong
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Jul 21st, 2004 07:59 PM |
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JKozzy
Agent Kozzy
Gender: Male Location: Chaos.
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Alrighty then. Thanks for the input, though. Hopefully someone knows what's exactly going on
*waits for Raz*
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Jul 21st, 2004 08:00 PM |
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Raz
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Gender: Male Location: UK Admin |
It looks like your computer goes into standby after a few hours. Check the power section in the control panel.
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Jul 21st, 2004 08:54 PM |
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yerssot
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and if that's not it, in BIOS there is an option to I believe
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Jul 21st, 2004 08:56 PM |
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