Okay, I think I solved it (fingers crossed!) and it's not what I had thought...

tl;dr: bad sensor design + gaming LEDs + reflective surface = automatic movement


I used Device Monitoring...

If I connect a certain USB mouse to the PC, sleep is usually delayed or prevented, but the problem is intermittent. I'm sure it's the mouse causing it, because I tested it on another PC and got the...

I think that's the intended behavior, not a bug. You can edit .pol files through the policy editor, but not through the registry.

In my case it doesn't seem related to USB 2 or USB 3. The problem device is USB 2 and I already tried it in both ports, it didn't make any difference.
I think it has something to do with it having...

Look at the screenshots that the OP posted. The eject option is missing and it's not clear why.
In my case I'm using the same device, same driver and the same removal policies. But on one system the...

I have the same problem as OP, but only for one USB device and only on one 22H2 PC. No such problem on a 20H2 PC.
I never installed any drivers on either, they both use some generic 2006 Windows...

In that case the Policy setting wins! The Registry setting might stick for some time, but eventually (after a restart), the Policy setting takes over and rewrites the Registry. The opposite doesn't...

No, it doesn't work with the IP either.

(edit: on 20H2 it works with both the name and the IP)

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I had to turn on "Enable insecure guest logons", as described...

The title says it all.
With W10 20H2 installed on the "client", I can access the shares on a 20H2 "server".
With W10 22H2 as the client, I can not access those same shares on 20H2.

After a lot...

I now get the "Search indexing was turned off" warning in search:

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This started happening after the March or April 2022 Windows updates.

Any way to remove it? The guide mentions...

No, I was also asking about the files inside SoftwareDistribution, after you've said that there's an important difference in that those have not yet 'been done':

Which is incorrect, because those...

In that case, you're wrong. All updates have been installed, including those that are still inside SoftwareDistribution currently (I'm seeing a few KBs from January and early February).

Can you explain what you mean by 'been done' here?

Yes, I think you're right, at least partially. After successfully running Windows Update Cleanup, the WinSxS folder got smaller, although not quite by that amount, so there might have been some files...

Nope, it doesn't.

I ran Disk Cleanup and it listed around 6GB of files under "Windows Update Cleanup".

I looked in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\, but it contains only a few hundred MBs of files. Where...

Berton: that has nothing to do with this thread. This is about an in Windows, not on a website.

Yesterday, I created a new folder on the Desktop and (1) was added to the end of its name by itself.
I know something like this can happen if you have files/folders with the same name, but I don't...

Could be, but as I said I'm pretty sure I checked all of them.


No, I don't. (It makes no difference, though. This pops up for any browser name, installed or not.)

I should have mentioned that it doesn't happen on every PC, so I believe you if you don't have it.

I have two PCs which are configured in almost exactly the same way, but only one of them has this...

I'm talking about this one that shows up when you type a browser name (Firefox, Chrome...):

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Unfortunately, none of those do what I want. They're mostly just different ways to do what I wrote about, where the username has to be typed.

I know that you can disable the "pre-typing" of the user name on the lock screen, so that it looks like this:
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In that case you have to type both the user name and the password for unlocking....

Yes, that's an option. I guess that's the registry edit that you linked to.

Sort of in the same vein: you can uninstall Edge and set it as the default browser. Yes, you can actually do that,...

I removed it late last year on a couple of PCs and have had zero issues with Windows Updates (besides that one time, related to the leftover empty folder, as I said).
So... I guess I've had some fun...