Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

I'm tidying up my mums laptop.

After removing unwanted files I ran a defrag, I disabled the screensaver etc.

But within 5 minutes the system went into the fast switching screen.

I have spent the best part of an hour searching on who to spot vista doing this and leaving the screen for me to see the defrag process.

I only use XP and don't know vista, I googled and it came up with gpedit.msc, but this is not available with my mum version of vista.

Any ideas please.

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

May be in the Power profile

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

What/wheres thats:confused:

Sorry but I've never really looked into my parents vista laptops.

Also I've noticed that now nothing is running and it hasn't go into fast switching mode??

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

There should be a icon in the tray which shows battery/pluggin in. Right click it should have an option for Power Management

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

I cannot see anything in the power management system that would tell it to "logout"

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

It's not logging out though, It's a security thing

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

Yeah, I had this when I worked.

How can I turn this off in Vista Home basic?

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...switching.html

Method 3 possibly? A quick regedit.

Re: Problem with Vista Home Basic (Fast Switching)
 

It's in screensaver settings, require password on resume.

right click the desktop, click personalize, then click screensaver.