important update:

on MS community now also the “indipendent microsoft assistants” admits that this is a BUG of windows…and they hope ms should be able to fix…and that also them are experiencing...

update:

searching the web i see that some other guys are experiencing this issue and now the focus is on the browser Edge....maybe the issue has something related to it...i do also see , on my 3rd...

hi and thxs
i access my pc exclusively with a local account
i really do not use my ms account to access the pc
the ms account is needed only if i wold like to dl apps from ms app store
or to post...

yes i've tried...not solve...
the news is that now is not just me only....
you may say i’m a dreamer…but now i’m really not the only one…:

https://answers.microsoft.com/it-it/...=1711035235470
...

just done...
not solve..same issue...
and now discovered that i'm really not the only one...:...

"As a test, Sign Out as you and Login as the now visible Administrator account"....:

...how...??..i repeat that i've no password set in my unique local admin account...
cheers

1) yes i have
2) yes it is
3) yes i'm the only user of my pc so i've an admin local account
4) no

thxs for yr kind attn
cheers

about the tutorial you linked i'm here:
" If no startup item causes this problem, a Microsoft service probably causes the problem. To determine which Microsoft service may be causing the problem,...

DONE...nothing change...the issue is still there...so MS services are involved....

...i'm afraid that should be like to find a needle in a haystack....
anyway i will try...
but in my case i'm also nearly blind....talking sincerely about my very few skills and pc's knowledge......

...maybe a neverending story...anyway i will do the try
i think that keeping a simple record, as you write, is more easy to write that to do...
anyway i will make my best efforts...
thxs so much...

before following the tutorial kindly linked by Try3
i would like you to give a look at the 2 files i attach here now...
one are the services started in normal boot
the other are the services...

maybe i was much clearer if i wrote re-tried
cause i've done in past, also before the suggestion in post #12 but the issue was there
NOW i repeat NOW re-tried and the issue in safe boot with...

Daymin
i really do not follow yr instructions, for which i anyway thxs but i repeat
i really do not want to follow yr for me really impossible to do instructions
they really are over my very few...

thxs again
sfc already done and nothing discovered
for me the main aim is to be sure not that it is not a virus...

but , if fault, why only after 08 march...??...not having installed anything....
or is a virus...??....
but having done so many deep scans with malwarebytes...f secure...eset...mcafee stinger...

yes of course...i repeat that MS from nearly 06-08 march ,
or in some updates or server-side ,
has put this new feature
...it is not a secret that its main aim is to migrate local accounts,that...

hi and thxs so much again

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannow

Avvio in corso dell'analisi del sistema. Attendere. L'operazione richiederà alcuni minuti.

Avvio in corso della fase di verifica...

all done...nothing change
BUT i headed the topic: explorer.exe ask me for ms passw account...
i think that the issue is all there...in explorer.exe
i attach here the properties of its file...
you...

hi and thxs again
checked out...nothing change...

another investigation done is that i'm running on my pc a useful tool:
HiBit Startup Manager

i see that before 08 march 2024, so before this...

so when you write "stop and restart" what you mean...??
i do the search you ask :
Start-up - All users "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
Start-up - CurrentUser...

here it is what you required
you write.
"stop it and restart it"...:
how...?...i see only the option -delete- if i right click on it....
if it is enough to unflag and then to re-flag the entries...

here there are attached screenshoots of the logon tab of autoruns just done
i do not see anything untrusted , but i uploaded here to yr expert examination
waiting for yr helpful response
thxs so...

apart the sarcasm when i has been in trouble since windows 10,
with my very loved windows xp was real another history,
no either restore point
or image disk, done by a free non shareware sw, has...

no it doesn't

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no able to disable...cause it states i'm not able to have it...
and also you are only focused to the first part of this issue...as for dalchina i invite...