Windows 10 tries to login automatically

[clifford64]

So about every 10 minutes my computer sits at the lock screen, it will try logging in. The image will swipe up and it will display my Microsoft account email and say logging in even though I did not touch it or do anything. It will always then just go back to the lock screen, no "login attempt failed" error or anything. It does this once every 10 minutes or so and I don't know why. I was wondering if anyone has come across this issue and might know how to solve it because it weirds me out and it is kind of annoying when I am trying to do homework, plus I want to know what it is doing when it does that. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[basroil]

If it starts moving without input, you're going to need a full virus scan.

Also consider running the computer without internet connection for a bit and see if it still has issues.

 

[USAFRet]

No one can assist in solving this without some more info.
Simple stuff like:
Laptop or desktop?
Where did the Win 10 install come from?
System specs?
Has it always done this? If not, what was the last thing you did before this started?

 

[clifford64]

Sorry I didn't give more info, I just tried running virus and malware scans and nothing came up. I disabled all network adapters and it still did it. I am on a desktop running an i7 6700k, 8gb ddr4, asrock z170 k6 mobo, gtx 770. I just upgraded from amd so the motherboard, ram, cooler, and cpu are new. Everything else is the same. I did a clean install and went with windows 10 by installing windows 7 pro and doing upgrade, then refreshing pc to factory settings and error checking so no issues would occur with upgrading. So i am running windows 10 pro. It seems to have done this from the beginning and i ran windows 10 pro on my amd setup and I didn't seem to have this issue, but i can't imagine it would be the hardware causing this issue.

 

[clifford64]

I have found in the event logs under security that when it tries to login, events are created. They are created under security and one in particular has event ID 4798 with a description of "A user's local group membership was enumerated". And it uses the process of LoginUI.exe.

 

[RoryMason]

This happens to me as well

 

[clifford64]

Do you have windows 10 pro as well?

 

[clifford64]

So I think I found out why it is doing it, but no real fix for my situation. I have my desktop to time out every 10 minutes and go to the lock screen. I found in a reddit forum that this issue will happen based on when your screen timeout is set to. I need mine to be set to 10 minutes, so I cannot change it. But there is no fix for it.