That would actually work for me too, but software got to me before hardware :) Started out on Big Iron.


That's the now very old SETI community program, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence....

Ah, that I do understand, Wynona! Thanks! I've always been software, not hardware :) :)

Is the battery the only piece of hardware that is susceptible to heat issues? Stuff that might be causing...

Even if they aren't being used? I mean, I do understand entropy, guess that's what it is?

Ed, I ran that report (VERY helpful, btw, didn't even know about it!) I've uploaded it here: Battery report Interesting tho, it shows as 100% capacity remaining, and the battery usage pretty much...

I actually do keep it plugged in pretty much 24-7, as I rarely use it outside of the house, just if we travel more than a day or so. But wouldn't that mean that the battery effectively isn't being...

Thanks to someone in another forum, I believe I have the answer. After a number of months or more, I'd recently started running BOINC again, and until it was mentioned, I never connected that to...

I read somewhere that a "typical" battery life is 2 years. That doesn't sound very good, but again, if it's always out and about, that makes a certain amount of sense. Since mine is rarely unplugged,...

I am NOT getting a BSOD. However, I just ran a Lenovo Diagnostics on the machine, and was surprised to see that the Battery Health Test Failed, the error saying "Battery has lower than expected...

I DID poke around the event log some more, and found a "critical" error around 11:00 this morning. It did reboot earlier too, after being away, forgot about that, sorry. There are a number of them...

I'm not getting a BSOD, or at least from what I can tell. Basically if I go away from my laptop for an extended period, overnight, for example, the next morning it's back at the login screen. This is...

Ah, got it. Didn't realize that. I'm going to disable it then, because what I need is the true WHY it restarts so frequently. If *I* am restarting it on purpose, I don't need to see that.

But this...

Even more interesting. Before I did all of the above, I DID see a notification about "Other (unplanned)" in my regular Event log a day or two ago. It was actually the reason I started looking for...

Interesting. I went ahead and added the reg key, and when I went to reboot, often a good idea after adding keys and such, I got a new popup asking me to give a reason why I wanted to reboot,...

I don't have that option in Group Policy either. This is the version of Windows 10 Pro I have:

10.0.16299 Build 16299

It's pretty much the latest and greatest, AFAIK.

elaine

Although that said, I did find just one reference of "Reliability", but I expect it's not the right one :) It's here:
...

"Reliability" is not an option in my registry (although I can easily add it if that won't mess anything up). All I see under ".../WindowsNT" are "Terminal Services" which has...

My currently up to date windows 10 pro machine has been restarting very very frequently after I've left it for a goodly while, including nearly every night, and in trying to figger out why this is...

Thanks! Now that is interesting. I already had the first HKCU key, and that was what I'd been changing--and re-changing. I did NOT have the HKLM key at all when I started playing with this. However,...

Sorry, having a brain fart day--it's h*ll when you get old :) :) Would you be so kind as to post the links for the bat file(s)?

Thx
elaine

No, I'm an IT pro, but I'll try resetting explorer. Didn't have to do that in the past :)

Thx
elaine

I have Windows 10 pro v1703, but none of these suggestions work to remove the shortcut text. If I change the HKCU link value to all zeros, it immediately goes back to the previous value. Changing the...