Windows 10 Version 1703 Mysterious Watchdog !

nIGHTmAYOR · 25 Sep 2017

Bree said:

Do you have a Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse ?

its a laptop and the only wireless peripheral hocked up to it is a Mircrosoft wireless mouse

nIGHTmAYOR · 25 Sep 2017

Josey Wales said:

I posted what I would do, if you choose not to do it then that is your choice. SFC /SCANNOW would find any problems as to turning off Windows Firewall-Google is your friend.:)

I would do an sfc for sure , but no plans to redo windows upgrade , i am glad mine survived from this one , i am still trying to figure how to deal in case of any system crash / boot loop with windows since my laptop is UEFI and everything is managed from windows itself so i am wondering what happens if i am locked out .
Second is Defender's Firewall the very same Windows Firewall or is it a specific component of Defender ?

Josey Wales · 25 Sep 2017

nIGHTmAYOR said:

I would do an sfc for sure , but no plans to redo windows upgrade , i am glad mine survived from this one , i am still trying to figure how to deal in case of any system crash / boot loop with windows since my laptop is UEFI and everything is managed from windows itself so i am wondering what happens if i am locked out .
Second is Defender's Firewall the very same Windows Firewall or is it a specific component of Defender ?

The Firewall is a separate piece of software
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