You make some valid points. I'll be doing some testing with this method [OFFLINE / ONLINE] and see how it all goes.

Thanks for your response.

Fascinating thread. I stumbled here after trying to work out this issue myself.

I have also had success with close "Task Manager". Other times its a Third-party search program called...

Just set up a custom scan to run at a certain time every 2 days. Time I set had already past and the scan did not kick off.

Doesn't seem to be working, and googling around yields not solution

I wasn't hijacking this thread. I was merely adding to it to form a unified thread on this exact same issue.

If there are various threads on exactly the same thing, it would be more difficult to...

I'm am having this issue also on a Lenovo Ideapad 17. I have checked out the event viewer and it appears there are many people out there having the exact problem.

The WiFi just drops out, and...

Great, another thing I could try, which I haven't, however I have run these memory sticks through Memtest86+ and they came up trumps!!

ok, thanks, I'll snoop around a bit more, something may resemble something along those lines.

I ran through my whole UEFI and did not find a setting relating to that. (ASRock 970 Pro3). It's possible I could be missing that particular option. Can you give us some info on what this setting is?

I disagree, I don't see how the issue is fixed, when you are still missing 1.1GB worth of RAM. Something is still not right here. I would not be too impressed if I was missing about 15% of my RAM.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe "Memory Remapping" is no longer an option in UEFI ???? If the OP is running a UWFI m/b he most probably won't find it.

Brillant, works great, thanks Brink

Just wondering if it is necessary to stop the "Windows Update Service and the Background Intelligent Transfer Service" before deleting the contents in the "Download" folder as I have seen this in...

I'm on the HOME edition, so updates download and install automatically, and in the last round of updates, the MSRT was included, and it looks like it kicked off as soon as it was installed by Windows...

Hi Brink,

I use to only run it manually on Windows 7 & 8 as I preferred to do it that way, but in Windows 10, since updates are auto downloaded and installed I see now it runs automatically.
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Hey Brink,

As always, great tutorials.

Just wondering, as I've just checked the log and it appears it runs silently in the background after updates have been downloaded but is there a way to...