Morning Procedure

Man windows, or maybe just my computer, can be weird at times. When I get in the office I have to….


  • Turn the power on to both monitors…. not out of sleep but a full power on (I think $coworker might be at fault for turning them off though)
  • Hit ctrl-alt-del to get my windows login prompt
  • Log in
  • Wait for windows to draw all the windows slooooooowly (in the non-tonka-toy look I might add)
  • Watch my screensaver (Electric Sheep) come on.
  • Move my mouse, watch login screen come on again
  • Hit ctrl-alt-del to get my windows login prompt
  • Log in
  • Watch windows draw all my windows again (though much faster this time)

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2 Comments on “Morning Procedure”

  1. I see this behaviour any time I’ve connected via Remote Desktop to my work machine and left it logged in. It doesn’t happen at home so it would appear that being in an Active Directory domain is also part of the equation. I’m just know to expect it if I had been doing some work from off-site.

  2. Thanks Ken, sounds like that’s pretty much the same as me, RDP from home, AD at work.
    Oh well, maybe Vista will fix it 🙂