I installed Group Policy Edtor in Home edition and navigated to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates tree. I found a setting "No scheduled Restart for Automatic Updates installations"....

Again .. did you go through the steps described in task manager?
Did you recently upgrade to Windows 10? Did the problem start then?
Did you go to Dell and look for driver updates?
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Ummm ... did you read any of the thread before posting?

Suggest you read the above and try first before asking a question, and including "what I've already tried" in it.

If you have just upgraded toWindows 10 it makes sense to go to the Manufacturers site (Acer in your case), search for your model and download the latest package of drivers and tools first. If that...

Yes, of course .. I just made the comment for people like AndreyT who are interested in particular cloning software, to draw their own conclusions as to the source of problems on other machines. It...

This worked perfectly.

Many thanks Topgundcp.

For info: the NoDrives Registry entry did not work in this case.
Also, this was an Asus factory install of OEM Windows 8.1 so there should not be...

After installing Windows 10 (upgrade from 8.1) and after a second reboot, the 100MB "SYSTEM" partition shows up in Explorer as the f: drive. It cannot be hidden in Explorer - "Hide Selected Items" -...

Did you try stopping processes in task manager one by one?

I have an Asus laptop.

I went in to task manager and stopped (what I thought were nonessential) tasks one by one until the flashing stopped.

When it stopped flashing I had just stopped ASUS...