When exactly does it happen and where does it show what exactly? And what do you do to get out of it again?
It might be a setting in your Windows Surface RT tablet with Windows 8 RT to save power after a certain period of inactivity. Or are you talking about some other device or some other OS? That's not really clear from your post.
Kees
what is this and how do I get rid of it??

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