Windows automatically logged me off

Hi everyone.

I was booted into Windows a couple of days ago, when without any reason what soever, I was logged off, and had to log in again. I checked Event Viewer, which showed the following:

The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because a composited theme is not in use.

Has anyone else ever experienced anything similar, and if so what causes this to happen?

Thanks.


Elliott.

Did you modify your windows theme files?

Hi, and thanks for your reply.

No - I haven't changed anything. What does this error mean exactly, and could it be the cause of the logoff?

Thanks.

Hi.

Unfortunately, this doesn't help; the problem isn't that this is happening every time I login, it was just a oneoff. The reason I asked the question was that I wanted to know if it was something that I should worry about.

Thanks.

Hi.

I doubt it's malware, but just out of interest what was the error you had with your registry?

Thanks.

Hi again.

After more searching through the Event Viewer, I found the following:

The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x40010004)

This error appears several times, so I'm wondering if it's a problem with my theme.

Thanks.