Windows 7: Seven locks up after an hour or so idle

hey alan, all u got to do is to uncheck "auto-hide the desktop" from taskbar properties. everything should be fine.

I'm having the same issues here as well. I think it has to do with this latest version of utorrent.
Now my pc is turning off randomly.

Um its autohide the taskbar not desktop

Ken

lol sorry, i misstyped it

There is a setting in Utorrent that allows Utorrent to auto shut down the system after the downloads complete or seeding target is reached. Perhaps this setting is enabled in your version of utorrent and perhaps this is causing the problem.

some people have this problem caused by utorrent. some other have this caused by auto-hide and auto-blanking desktop, including me.

For me, it has nothing to do with utorrent.

I had this problem for a while a few months back. Random freezes that needed a hard re boot.
Im not 100% sure but i tihnk it was my graphics card driver. I un installed the ATi stuff and let Windows 7 install its own native drivers and ive not had the problem since.
Probably no help to anyone but i thought i would mention it.

I think you could well be right. In my case it does seem to be something to do with the graphics card and an errant driver or Windows 7 being cussed, could easily be the problem.

Regards,

Alan.

I've confirmed through a few other sources, and with a bit of trial-and-error of my own that this is related to Auto-Hide on x64 Windows 7 Systems, hardware doesn't seem to come into play. For me it happened on two different computers, one a laptop with no common hardware manufacturer, and the other a desktop system I built last summer.

For now it seems disabling 'auto hide the taskbar' fixes the problem. I hate this though, so I've found that if you leave a window open, or your mouse-over the task bar it should be 100% fine.

I hope Microsoft figures the issue out on their end and patches it soon. It's annoying, and I don't always remember to leave a window open (on screen, not minimized). Additionally I have a habit of hitting the show desktop button before leaving my system.

My two-cents might be pointless at this point, but I thought I'd throw them into the hat anyway. Similar issues may be caused by other things, but an issue that matches the description of the TC is consistently experienced by many users who 'auto-hide' their taskbar.