Here is a comparison of a typical reliability graph between a system running Windows 7 versus one running Windows 10. Both systems are running on top-of-the-line hardware, and during the time these...

Heh, I think your system has figured out you're onto it and it will behave from here on out... :chuckle:
Just kidding, of course. I'm curious as to what you find. Sorry, I know this one must annoy...

Would you like to explain what, specifically, you mean by "trolling" as it applies to my post(s)?
Or, would you like to explain what you find unhelpful about a post explaining how people should...

No, they're not; not all of them, anyway.



That's not the point. People following the advice given so far have indeed opened up their systems to potential security holes, by allowing any user...

No, see my answer above.

Hmm, I see; you clearly do not have any understanding of the Windows NT object security model, at all. Is that correct? To wit:



Changing ownership back to whoever makes no difference after...

In short, yes, it is part of the complete and utter mess that is Windows 10, and, no, nobody really knows whether or not those permissions issues have any real consequences or not. If you're not...

"Administrative Events" is a predefined filter showing events from a number of logs; you can only clear those by clearing the associated individual event logs, which you may not want to do. I would...

You can try adding launch and activation permissions for user "All Application Packages" and see if that helps. I assume you have already added those permissions for the user "my pc"; if not, do that...

Try to find out which one of your installed Dell applications is causing this and uninstall it. As an aside, pretty much all of the stuff that comes preinstalled on Dell machines is (a) unnecessary...

Did you enable task scheduler's logging facility as I had suggested? You need to go Applications and Services Logs->Microsoft->Windows->Task Scheduler in Event Viewer, right-click on the Operational...

There's really nothing to be shared that's not been rehashed ad nauseam. I do see that RuntimeBroker DCOM error every now and then, despite the fact that permissions are set to allow the user to...

That would be nice now, wouldn't it? Unfortunately it turns out that Microsoft has made a complete mess out of things in Windows X, with the result that not all DCOM errors can be fixed. One may note...

Have you enabled Task Scheduler logging in your event viewer?
Perhaps this will allow you to correlate a specific task with the wake event.

P.S.: I feel for you. I'm currently trying to...

It really depends on your hardware and what driver is being used; the BIOS setting will be the authoritative one if you want to not allow the computer to wake up due to a network signal instructing...

Just to add to the chorus: Never, ever, use any program that claims to "clean" your registry. They always cause more harm than good. There is no need to "clean" the registry.

Should be a BIOS setting.

More than half of my extensions are marked as "Legacy". I just disabled automatic updates, and may abandon Firefox if that picture does not change substantially.

I would not recommend an automated procedure of that kind. Unfortunately, some DCOM objects have permissions structures that are completely effed up (the infamous RuntimeBroker is one of these, by...

Nonsense. It is a universal problem in the sense that lots and lots of installations have these. It's quite possible that there are some that don't, but if so I haven't seen any of the latter kind....

Did you download the correct version, 64-bit probably, not the 32-bit version?

I have seen cases were Windows figured out the update did not apply, or perhaps somehow had been installed already, or perhaps recalled, or something... In any case, this may trigger an "Update...

Update: It seems in my case it was indeed the "delay quality and feature updates for 7 days" setting that was the culprit. Setting that to zero immediately started the download.

You are creating symlinks to folders, right? The way I understand your scenario at least there's no good reason to directly symlink individual files, anyway. If you do use symlinks to folders you...

Margrave used shortcuts, which are useless for your (and just about any other non-trivial) purpose.
For non-trivial symlink handling I would highly recommend you get yourself Schinagl's link shell...