Usually that's what happens. The one time I had corruption, I had some other weirdness going on with the system. It had claimed to work, but then I couldn't open start, or launch anything other than...

As a last ditch effort, I did try using the REG file in the tutorial, to restore Windows Search to it's default settings, but this didn't work either.

When I was looking through event viewer...

I used the official Windows Media Creation tool to get my install media, so it's definitely not a shady source.

I tried stuff that hadn't been tried from the first link. The images all look the...

Thanks for the replies. Sorry about my delays, I never got the notifications, so I'll have to see where they ended up.

The differences between "Windows Search" and "wsearch" could just have to do...

I recently did a clean install of Windows 10, as a way of downgrading from Windows 11, because I had too many problems with it. Did this maybe a month or two ago.

Today, I was looking over some...

Installation is on a VirtualBox Virtual Machine, used for experiments, to prevent damage to my system (snapshot is before any experimentation). Host machine is the one in my system specs, and is...

event 104 happens before I see the desktop. I did a little checking with ProcMan, and found the PID was from svchost, but the thread ID wasn't running.

Added to troubleshooting were the following:...

I've had Comodo antivirus from the day I installed Windows. This started happening within the last month at most. Windows was installed back in September 2020.

As a test, I did a random reboot,...

Thanks for the reply. Reliability history showed nothing at the time of the restart on the day I originally posted. This happened again today, but this one was definitely after a crash. (Reliability...

I have surge protectors, and UPS battery backups, so I don't worry too much about simple power outages. Bad lightning storms are a different story.

A few years ago, we had a bad storm here, and...

just a quick thought, then I'll let you resume your troubleshooting.

I'm guessing this may also potentially have something to do with the web browser you're using. I don't know about IE, or Edge,...

There was either a power loss, or a system restart this morning, around 11:30-ish eastern. (I'm not sure which)

When I got to my computer at almost 1:30p, it was sitting on the lock screen. I...

Be glad to help, if needed. I learned a LOT about WoL during this issue, including how much it has changed from when I last used it a couple of decades ago. lol

Maybe. lol I just know this one worked, where the others failed completely. Thanks again for the help!

Looks like there might've been some weirdness with WakeMeOnLan, and the Unified Remote. I tried "Wake On Lan" from the google play store, and it fired right up. guess that makes this resolved. Thanks...

I've checked all of those links, before i came here. i disabled hibernation, and fast startup on day 1, because I dual-boot with Linux, which doesn't play well with fast startup either. the only...

yup. I set it to 3, like you suggested. I've googled this a few times, and mostly i just come up with solutions that worked for them, but not me, or they never came back and said what worked for...

it is using an ethernet connection. I have a wi-fi adapter installed, but it only gets used, if the computer is moved to a different location (Say, when spending a weekend at a friend's).

the IP,...

i tried WakeMeOnLan but that didn't work either. when the computer was sleeping, it said the computer was OFF, but i did check to make sure that the ethernet link was blinking (it was). i used my...

Here ya go. Top item listed in the powercfg command is the correct device.

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Relevant settings I know of are:

Wake on PCIE/PCI is enabled in the UEFI, and the relevant power management features, and magic packet settings are all enabled. Fast startup is also disabled, as I...

Windows version is 1909. I've tried with IPVanish, and with Logmein Hamachi.

IPVanish installs without incident, but if I try to tell it to install the OpenVPN driver, it fails every time,...

I'll probably just pause updates for a while. Maybe a month.

Giving a final update here. Ultimately, I ended up just doing a clean install of Windows 10 Figured it was easier to take this route, instead of trying to fix what the updates broke. I also blocked...

I already did that. It's how I fixed the critical error that prevented the start menu from working at all. I'll keep looking, and I'll go through the list of tutorials for more clues too, but I'm...