My account logs off when it is idle. Help me out.

[busdriver68]

I am useing Wimdows xp home and after so many minutes of being idle it logs off of my account and goes to the log on screen. I was wondering if there was any way of turning this off.

I read another thread that said
"Control Panel, Administrative Tools > local security policy > local policies \ security options \ "Automatically log off users" and/or "Amount of idle time required before disconnecting session"

but when I go to Administrative Tools local security policy is not there. Can anyone help me turn this off?

 

[bcastner]

Check your screensaver settings.

 

[busdriver68]

It's not the screen saver because I have it truned off. Thanks anyways.

 

[jay9333]

See if this works....

1) Right click anywhere on the desktop.
2) At the bottom of the right click menu that appears select (left click) on "Properties".
3) Select the "screensaver" tab in the box that appears
4) If the "on resume, password protect" checkbox in the screensaver area is checked, uncheck it. Select "apply" and hit "OK"

- jay

 

[busdriver68]

OK I just selected a screen saver and "on resume, password protect" was checked so I'm going to keep the screen saver on with the box unchecked and see what happens. Thanks alot,

 

[jay9333]

Oops, sorry, while I was replying you posted, so I didn't see that you had already said you tried the screen saver.

Well then, next thing to try is this:

Configure your computer to not prompt you to type a password when you resume from standby:
1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Power Options.
2. On the Advanced tab, click to clear the Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby check box, and then click OK.

(from

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810607)

Hope this helps you,
jay

 

[bcastner]

Two other guesses:

. Check Scheduled Tasks if you are not the only user of the machine. There might be an entry for a third-party program that forces the logoff on the schedule you have experienced;

. Check the registry:

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: AutoRestartShell
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0 user must log on/off to regenerate crashed user shell
Value: 1 user shell to automatically restart

If the value of this key is 0, an explorer crash would force the logon again.