That's what I came here to fix, so I'm not giving up that easily. I found a one line PowerShell script to open the Start Menu; now I just have to decide on a place to put it and set up my own task...

I never said every ten minutes; it's only after ten minutes with zero input from the mouse or keyboard, and my latest digging bears that out. Now I have to find or write some sort of script that...

Well, I now have more information, but still no clear path to a resolution.

The offending task is apparently called "ReconcileFeatures", and it's filed in the Task Scheduler under...

Yes, you're right; I apologize for that.



I was thinking more like "If enough idle time has passed for StartEnder.exe to have run, run StartReStarter.cmd".

I don't really care what's causing it, as long as I can undo it shortly afterward using a similar mechanism.



I'll try this, just for the info, next time I can afford to sit idly by the...

Okay, first, I see that Scheduled Tasks have an option to be scheduled "On idle", but is there a way to identify which of the dozens of standard task(s) use this option - other than reviewing each...

The computer in question is configured to never sleep or hibernate; besides, that's not what it's doing - it's still on, only the desktop is showing instead of the Start Menu that was visible on top...

Your questions tell me that you didn't understand my issue, so I'll try to explain in more detail.



This is really irrelevant to the issue, but to give one example, the main function of ...

A recent update to Win10 has apparently changed the behavior of the Start Menu. Background: I love the Live Tiles in Win8 & 10, and I have several programs whose only real purpose is to use tiles...

FYI, I've now tried both RegDelNull64.exe and PsExec64.exe from SysInternals, and still couldn't delete the key I mentioned above. I ended up taking Ownership as Administrator to all of...

On Win11*, Remove_Extract_All_context_menu.reg doesn't work for me. Searching the registry, I found ...


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I hadn't seen your second link - but as it turns out, it was a second, more careful reading of the first link that answered my question. There, they write, "The following is a full list of arguments...

That's the problem - all the VS forums I've found are run by Microsoft, so they all expect you to have "developer" credentials.

I know this is the wrong place to be asking this, but I don't have a zillion bucks to pay for an MSDN account or anything; all I did was download and install VS, and now I'm trying to see if it's an...

No, but I normally keep that off. I tried checking it, but I still get no warnings, whether I hit Delete or Shift-Delete from within C:\Program Files (x86) [or C:\Program Files].

Thank you for your response, but it fails to address the questions that I actually asked. (I understand that answering a question that a person may be too inexperienced to ask for himself is...

I recently needed to do some cleanup after "uninstalling" a program that apparently didn't want to be uninstalled, and so left files behind after its own uninstall ran. To do this, I opened an...

Lucky you. :sick:

No worries; "this machine" is like Number Seven in line as to most used and most important - plus I have everybody here avoid C:\ as much as possible and put their stuff on our...

No, it just slowed this computer (which wasn't all that swift to begin with) to a crawl. I just got done backing out this one - and I don't know what I'll do with this PC when I can no longer avoid...