workstation locked

[Simon]

I've been struggling with this problem for days now, and
I'm at my wits end, so any help would be greatly
appreciated.
If the worksation (win 2k pro / SP4) is left alone for 2-
3 hours, it locks itself up. (CTRL-ALT-DEL is required to
enter password and unlock workstation). To my knowledge,
this has not been setup by anyone.
The problem is is that the system either locks up or runs
so low on resourses I can't do anything, even the icons
on desktop get the washed up look.
Event viewer is not giving me much to work with.
The problem happens in safe mode too!!!
It's not a hardware issue, because the problem
disappeared with a fresh install of Win2k pro.

PLEASE HELP!!!!
Thanks
Simon

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've been struggling with this problem for days now, and
I'm at my wits end, so any help would be greatly
appreciated.
If the worksation (win 2k pro / SP4) is left alone for 2-
3 hours, it locks itself up. (CTRL-ALT-DEL is required to
enter password and unlock workstation). To my knowledge,
this has not been setup by anyone.
The problem is is that the system either locks up or runs
so low on resourses I can't do anything, even the icons
on desktop get the washed up look.
Event viewer is not giving me much to work with.
The problem happens in safe mode too!!!
It's not a hardware issue, because the problem
disappeared with a fresh install of Win2k pro.

PLEASE HELP!!!!
Thanks
Simon

It seems that one of your applications, maybe your screen
saver, suffers from a memory leak, i.e. it demands more
and more memory resources until none are left. It is also
possible that an application fails to return its memory space
to the operating system when you terminate it.

You can check the first problem by looking at the Task
Manager, Processes tab. It shows the amount of memory
required by each process. Is one of them growing as time
goes by?

When you look at the Task Manager, Performance Tab,
then you can see the amount of "free memory". It should
go up and down in line with the applications you launch
and terminate. Does it?

Ultimately you may have to have a serious word with the
supplier of your offending application.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Pegasus

I have been observing performance in task manager, and
have not noticed anything out of the ordinary, except
that the total memory usage is increasing very slowly,
but none of the services is increasing at the same rate.
Even the sum of the increases for the individual services
doesn't seem to match the increase in total memory usage.

That would leave the screen saver for which I can't check
the memory usage because that value disappears as soon as
the screen saver stops.

Thanks again!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks Pegasus

I have been observing performance in task manager, and
have not noticed anything out of the ordinary, except
that the total memory usage is increasing very slowly,
but none of the services is increasing at the same rate.
Even the sum of the increases for the individual services
doesn't seem to match the increase in total memory usage.

That would leave the screen saver for which I can't check
the memory usage because that value disappears as soon as
the screen saver stops.

Thanks again!

Turn off the screen saver and you will know!

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

The locking is, of course, set up by your screensaver.

Bear in mind that you can run perfmon.msc on another machine and monitor
across the network. This could give you a clue.

Ultimately the real problem is the memory leak, not the locking of the
console. Locking the console when you're not present is a good thing.

Hope this helps

Oli