Thanks for finding another fix. I will save this information, and ask someone who is more comfortable opening up a laptop to fix it.
Way to Go! dka

[QUOTE=Antilope;291643]Runtime Broker kept thrashing my system, usually using 40% of my CPU although memory use wasn't much, according to the Task Manager. I'm currently using Windows 10 Pro x64...

My user name is dka. I would like to request detailed instructions on disabling Runtime Broker in the registry that you offered to do in in the post quoted above. My loud fan noise comes on and then...