You have your power settings to go into one of the alternate states (ie. STANDBY). Go to CONTROL PANEL and I think its called POWER SETTINGS, and look everywhere in there. You also have ot set to take you out to the welcome screen everytime it does that. If you can't find the setting, let us know and one of use will walk you through it exactly. ---Troth At 9/21/2003 10:17 AM, HB wrote: > After a short period of time of not being used, the screen goes black. >I tap the power button, and a screen comes on where I have to click on my >name, and I'm returned to the last current screen/program I was >using. What is >causing this, and how do I go about getting around it? >Thanks, To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk