progress ....

here's the scenario
I turn on win7 machine .. go to tivo, d/load something .. all is well.

I sit on my laptop, remote desktop to my win7 machine, disconnect, go to tivo d/load something, NO SOUND !!!

I go to win7 machine (physically) to discover the desktop is now locked (requires password to login), I login in, go to tivo, d/load something, all is well !!!

freaky.

the fix so far: disable remote login, turn off screen saver etc etc etc, so the win7 machine is always unlocked

I suspect that when windows locks, it also disables the sound card (power saving maybe?) and without a sound can tivo desktop can't transcode

Thoughts?