Thank you, pjhutch, for these hopeful settings, but unfortunately I had configured these different choices to no avail. Here are the screenshots I created in order you suggested. Nothing has changed,...

Good day, and I hope everyone is having a good New Year so far, all things considered. :)

After upgrading my Windows 10 Pro to version 2004, build 19041.685, all possible apps disappeared from the...

My PC is used as a personal server since I live and teach at a major university, and all my materials are on this PC which can be accessed from anywhere on our campus. Additionally, it is also my...

Thank you for your quick response, Compumind. To the best of my knowledge there is nothing that scans these hard drives or keeps them running for any known process. To be double sure, I just checked...

Happy Holidays everyone. :)

For some time now I have been experiencing the problem that no external HDD sleeps and I must simply keep them unplugged until needed. Nothing I do in Power Options...

Well, guys, it appears the work-arounds have done the job!! My system hasn't checked for updates, nor installed any from our update servers (which means my registery hasn't been overwritten), since...

Thanks TairikuOkami and muchomurka for these great work-arounds / fixes. I'll give each a run to see if it stops my system from doing its own thing and let y'all know the outcome. :)

Best regards!

Sadly, neither the UpdaterDisabler service nor my locked registery settings have stopped my computer from downloading and installing updates. There must be a registry setting somewhere else that is...

Thanks for this information. I've downloaded, installed and started this service. My fingers are crossed this stops auto-updates. As stated in my post above, I have the permissions locked in the...

I've used the registry to stop automatic updates for years, but this appears to no longer work in Windows 10 (Pro). My computer is on an Enterprise network which uses WU Servers, but I have changed...

Hi Y'all.

Ok. I've been having the BSoD with multiple errors causing the crashes.

May 31st: NETIO.SYS
Jun 2nd: CNG.SYS
Jun 3rd: WMILIB.SYS
Jun 6th: NTFS.SYS

I have dmp files for all...