xplatinum Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Hello everyone, I recently installed Windows 8.1 on my workstation. Something really odd started happening. Every time I log back in, all my apps that I had left open and closed. Doing a systeminfo reveals that the system has not been rebooted for the past 2 weeks so it is definitely not an issue with restarts. I looked at the event viewer and nothing worth noting came up. This is really getting annoying because I am currently working on a big project and every time I log in the morning, I have to reopen every single file and applications. Excel even needs to ask me to recover unsaved changes on documents I had open. Has anyone experienced this ? It is just so bizarre that it is not due to a restart as the up time shows. For what it's worth, I have been logging through RDP for the past 3 weeks and noticed it happened almost daily (compared to before). Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buendia Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I suppose that you lock your account and not log off and by logging back in after having locked your account, all your apps are closed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted November 25, 2013 MVC Share Posted November 25, 2013 Why not you try locking using Win Key + L. Also try this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manroweb Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Does the machine go into sleep mode or hibernate after a set period? One of my clients Dell laptops does the same thing when it hibernates (running Win 8.1). When it resumes from hibernation the graphics driver does not reload correctly, and all apps have closed. Disabled hibernation and it is now fine. It is probably a driver issue, but newer versions have not resolved it yet..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xplatinum Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 I have found the issue. During some of my tests I placed my user object in AD in a OU that had timeouts in place through GPO. After 8 hours of being disconnected it would sign-out the user (RDS server). Manroweb - yeah I always disable hibernation via the prompt on client machines via powercfg -h off. Huge space saver on machines with lots of RAM and an SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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