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That update is from June, have you installed any later updates since then?

That "error" message isn't really an error and is very common to see in event logs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/application-management/event-10016-logged-when-accessing-dcom That video doesn't actually fix anything but rather just suppresses the error from...

Unfortunately, it looks like the OP has deleted the dump file from their Google Drive now. I should imagine that is the most likely scenario, some thread has raised processor 8 to DISPATCH_LEVEL so no other threads can be scheduled on that processor, probably through a spinlock and then just...

I was actually referring to learning how a modern operating system works and how Windows manages things, at least then you'll have a better understanding of what you're changing and how to troubleshoot any problems which may arise. It's like when users recommend that certain services are...

How many users actually bother trying things in a VM or performing backup prior? No, not the case for me at all, I've never broken any Windows installations. Most of my knowledge I've acquired is from reading books and technical blogs, as well as, actually spending time reading the MSDN...

As mentioned earlier, there is little to no benefit to performing any "tweaks" and since the average forum user usually falls into two camps: those who are blissfully computer illiterate and those who think they know more than they really do, it is often best to recommend that they don't change...

CrystalDiskInfo is usually pretty good from my experience with using it, the only problem is that S.M.A.R.T. status reporting isn't standardised from what I remember, so expect there to be variations between different reporting applications.

The default settings don't go wrong at all, most problems are caused by user error and "tweaking" things which they don't understand. Windows doesn't really require any changes other than maybe disabling "AI" rubbish like Copilot and Cortana which can easily be done from the Settings app.

You need to provide the name of the logging source or Id for which you're trying to export. !wmitrace.logsave 2 C:\Users\<user name>\Desktop\Trace.etl

Your screenshots aren't very clear, please enter the following commands from command prompt and then post the output in your next post: reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v {374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B} reg query...

The paging file should just be left as system managed; 16MB is not enough at all! By crash dumps, you must be referring to Minidumps, which generally aren't adequate for most crashes, you would need at least a kernel memory dump which is usually a minimum of 600MB.

There's a far faster way than manually going to device manager, just open command prompt and then use: pnputil /enum-devices /problem /deviceids

NTFS permissions do work correctly if they've been set correctly, have you ensured that the files and/or directories aren't inheriting permissions from an ancestor directory? The easiest method to check for which permissions have been set is to use icacls.

Yes, you can bypass the CPU compatibility checks by either editing the registry during the setup process, or the far simpler method, is to just create a bootable .ISO using Rufus which just replaces C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\appraiserres.dll with a empty dummy file.

You don't need to delete any Windows files at all or ever! Every 30 days or so, a scavenger service will run and delete any unused files for you, by running DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup. Please do not run any "optimisation" software, they're all crapware and most have not...