I just want to extend my warmest and most bitterly sarcastic gratitude to everyone who hijacked this thread and therefore made sure it became useless to me, and thereby ensured I rely less and less...

Thanks for the replies. I'm about to install KB4074588.

If memory serves, a bunch of updates tend to get installed along with the big "Cumulative Update" like (in this case) KB4074588. Are those...

I ran both WU troubleshooters (which I guess were the same thing, invoked from two different locations). Each time, it said there were pending updates. I opted to apply the "fix", then the...

No, I gave up on third-party AVs quite awhile ago. Running only WD. I checked for the applicable registry key, and it's set.

I had opened a thread regarding KB4056892, because I didn't receive...

No idea why, but my 1709 x64 system seems to no longer install most updates to Windows. I got four updates on February 13, 2018, but they're all for Microsoft Office. Prior to that, I have one update...

I waited for today's monthly updates, hoping I'd get KB4056892 then. Nope. So I downloaded and installed it manually. It didn't tell me I didn't need it or couldn't install it, so I assume it should...

I had not run the Windows Update Troubleshooter. I just ran it, and it suggested that there were pending updates--or that I needed to check for pending updates (both versions of that verbiage were...

I'm running Win10 1709 but KB4056892 has not yet been installed. My PC has been on more often than not over the past several days. I only run Windows Defender, and when I checked just now, the...

I'm running Win10 1709, and when I select "No (your device might not work as expected)", the only thing that gets changed is PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork, which gets changed from 0 to 1, and is...

You would think so, but those logs don't seem to capture the Exploit Protection events I'm interested in. I just changed an EP setting to purposely make it crash an application, and there's no log...

I've used EMET quite a bit in the past. I recently started using the Fall Creators Update "Exploit Protection" feature. I have the settings as aggressive as possible, and I'm not changing them. This...

I have no interest in pointless and irrational arguments about anti-malware software, but I will say that I've tried a very large number of them, many times, over many years. I have had serious...

I was only asked because I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my install or something. IOW, if it was just me.

So, Judesman, have you received the Creators Update yet? I haven't even received the pre-Creators-Update update yet.

I haven't gotten CU/1703 yet, either. Still on 1607. Decided I wanted 1703, read that it's been available for 3.5 months, tried figuring out why I haven't gotten it yet. Thought I had "defer...

I was about to suggest T-Clock Redux as well. Although I run the latest beta (2.4.2 build 459) and there seems to be a minor bug that makes the clock a bit too wide sometimes, and it pushes the...

That would make sense (although not being notified of that condition doesn't make sense), but I logged off and back in yesterday. Looks like the last updates were installed on January 24, which was a...

Sometimes Windows pisses me off so much I just want to use my shotgun on my PC.

Turns out I was having the same issues with DISM, SFC, and probably other native utilities that require elevation. A...

I'm running Win10 Pro x64 1607. I have a bunch of command scripts that check for elevation with the following line:


for /f "tokens=1,2*" %%a in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\bcdedit.exe') do if...

Scheduling scans separately would work as far as having WD scan goes, but the annoying messages from WD still appear.

But I think I have found the cause of the problem. I had been using an...

Thanks. I have had it set for 3PM, and my PC is usually on at that time.

With "Limited Periodic Scanning" enabled, Windows Defender never scans my PC automatically. Instead, I frequently see notifications in Action Center saying "Windows Defender needs to perform a scan"...

I suggested using the System account 2 weeks ago, and wasn't lying when I said it works fine.

I've always set my scheduled task to run under the System account. Works fine.

URL please? Sounds like what I'm after. The only APC unit that seemed suitable for me cost much much more than that, though. I need at least 1,000 Watts.