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Too Many 'Audit Success' Security-Auditing Events Happening
Hi! I've been using Windows 10 for a while now and except for one time where my start button and notification tray stopped working (solved that by migrating to a new user account), I haven't had any problems.
Except maybe a week ago.
Consistently during use (either for simple browsing or whatever), I keep hearing multiple instances of the sound I hear whenever a new device is plugged in (i.e. USB Flash Disk). It's REALLY annoying.
At first I though it was because my graphics card was failing (it is). I though that because of this, whenever my PC needed to do graphics-processing intensive tasks, like downloading a large image, the card bugged out and so the PC responded by believing that the hardware was being plugged back in and out.
Apparently, this is wrong. I finally got fed up and checked my event viewer. Everything is hunky-dory EXCEPT the 'Security' category, which has an overwhelming number of events. I then monitored it and was witness to new events being created (as signified by the sound being played). Therefore, I can reliably assume that the sound I've been hearing has actually been this event happening over and over again.
Basically, every minute or so, a new event is created. It has the Event ID of 4798, Source: Security-Auditing, Task Category: User Account Management and Keywords: Audit Success.
I have hundreds of this. Please see attached image.
Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks!