My whole family uses the computer, when I need to stop to let someone else on, I can either logout, or lock it with the 'WinKey and L key' option and someone else can login, while I remain logged in. I have been doing this for years without ever a problem.
Now, whether I logout or 'WinKey and L key' all account sort of get locked out after about 4 or so of these cycles. So, rebooting is becoming common, and very annoying.
Now when this condition reveals itself, I can type characters in the password box and see that they increment. I am sure that it is not in CapsLock, because the light is not lit and my pw is lower case. The CapsLock light does alternate when I press it. I have tried typing in the password with it lit, just in case.
The only thing to do when this happens is to do an OS restart while everyone is logged in. Work progress gets interrupted. I've searched on the Internet, but everything I found in regards to lockouts were not related. And it isn't a password failed to many tries issue, all accounts don't work. The response from XP is not that the account in locked out, I don't think it provides any kind of response.
For Security measures, I have always run (since this instance of the OS install) VS 8.0, SpySweeper 5 (subscription just expired), and Ad-Aware with Ad-Watch (the pay to use version). Of course the firewall from the OS is always running, plus the FW services from Belkin router as well. Spyware/Virus scans haven't revealed anything except Ad-Aware's usual alarms about tracking cookies and MRUs.
This begun about 6-8 weeks ago and is getting very frustrating for me.
Any Ideas
Now, whether I logout or 'WinKey and L key' all account sort of get locked out after about 4 or so of these cycles. So, rebooting is becoming common, and very annoying.
Now when this condition reveals itself, I can type characters in the password box and see that they increment. I am sure that it is not in CapsLock, because the light is not lit and my pw is lower case. The CapsLock light does alternate when I press it. I have tried typing in the password with it lit, just in case.
The only thing to do when this happens is to do an OS restart while everyone is logged in. Work progress gets interrupted. I've searched on the Internet, but everything I found in regards to lockouts were not related. And it isn't a password failed to many tries issue, all accounts don't work. The response from XP is not that the account in locked out, I don't think it provides any kind of response.
For Security measures, I have always run (since this instance of the OS install) VS 8.0, SpySweeper 5 (subscription just expired), and Ad-Aware with Ad-Watch (the pay to use version). Of course the firewall from the OS is always running, plus the FW services from Belkin router as well. Spyware/Virus scans haven't revealed anything except Ad-Aware's usual alarms about tracking cookies and MRUs.
This begun about 6-8 weeks ago and is getting very frustrating for me.
Any Ideas
