OT- W7 requiring repeated log-in

Den fredag den 29. september 2017 kl. 14.08.12 UTC+2 skrev legg:

Run cmd.exe Type "control userpassword2" in the command window and press Enter A User Accounts Window will pop up. Untick the box for "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer." Click OK and you're done.

I require the use of passwords to log in.

None nof these machines are set up to sleep, hibernate or do any power saving features.

There are no domains or multiple users set up.

RL

RL

None of these machines are set up to sleep, hibernate or do any other power saving features.

There are no domains or multiple users set up.

It's also not 2010 any more.......this is a recently occuring issue.

I think I've already gotten as far as Google will get me on the problem.

RL

LOL. I run XP under Virtualbox in Ubuntu 10.04

No updates. Runs my legacy DOS programs fine. Everything runs with no problems. Works every day, without fail, for years. No changes. I like that.

Win 7 is also available under VBox. I rarely use it except to logon for Bitcoin.

You should get some.

OK, so you don't want to get rid of the login process altogether. What did you mean by "repeat log-in when booting up" and by "This happened just once"? Do you mean that you had to log in twice during boot-up and that this situation never came up again?

If that's the case, there might have been some rare background event you weren't aware of. If this were me, I'd wait and see if it happens again and if not, I wouldn't worry about it. A guy could go crazy trying to track down every minor glitch that happens with something as complex and bloated as Windoze.

During updates a computer can reboot several times. It sounds like somethin g installed on all these machines got the same updates. The other possibili ty is that the second login was a ruse by a virus to steal your password. C hange your passwords and run virus scans. If it doesn't happen again, I wou ldn't worry too much about it.

I've had where Windows forgets my password, while I'm already logged in and working; that may be more about whatever backend supports Microsoft Exchange, though (e-mail, and Lync / Skype for Business).

I forget if I've seen "login screen twice in a row" before. Certainly not within recent memory. Anything in the logs with a timestamp exactly when you logged on?

Tim

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The 'event' logs are swamped with log-ins for 'security audit', software protection services, shadowing services and other rubbish from various windows services in the one machine that is only rebooted occasionally. This runs background distributed computing tasks.

The machines that are shut-down and rebooted daily show multiple log-in 'events' within seconds of each other, for a single simple uneventful log-in at start-up for the one and only user.

Wouldn't know where to find something as simple as a simple log-in record.

RL

As you may know, i support three OSes: Win2K, WinXP, and Win7. I use them with the first one the most, and the last one the least. Web use the same way; rarely get on the web when running Win7. Never seen the problem mentioned. I strongly suspect that they have a "nice" little malware program that is futzing the OS; same one from same source.

Windows help says as much, unfortunately there are no examples. What you'd be looking for isn't necessarily going to be included in the filter, unless you know what that is and what its descriptive field looks like ahead of time....

Seeing W7 processes logging in as 'anonymous', when there are no anonymous profiles available, makes looking for 'irregular' access events rather frustrating.

I was only interested to know if I was alone in noting this recent aberant behavior in these W7 machines. This seems to be the case.

RL