Flipperwaldt posted:

Just open task manager now and in options set it to be always on top. It should remember that for the next time.

stevewm posted:

Look in task manager for a process called RealTek HD Audio Manager, or Realtek Audio Control panel... End it and see if the problem goes away immediately.

I've seen just this happen on a few computers and that program was the culprit.

nielsm posted:

More specifically: Right-click the Start button and open the Event Viewer. Fold out the Windows category and select the System log. You should be able to find the crash info there.

Klyith posted:

Seems like that WUDFRd is associated with USB devices.

1. Update the drivers that are associated with your wireless keyboard since that's called out.
2. Get the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard. (If you don't know what chipset your motherboard has, get CPUz, run it, screenshot the Mainboard tab and we'll give you a link directly to the right chipset drivers for your pc.)


DCOM errors are a giant PITA to fix, and before win10 the advice was always to ignore them because nothing important actually cared about DCOM. But now UWP does. You can try running the MS Store and having it fetch updates for everything, and also doing the
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
thing in powershell if that doesn't work.

Anyways that may be a sign of creeping UWP failure but it won't bsod your system. AFAIK the only thing ContentDeliveryManager does is fetch ads and windows spotlight backgrounds, so not essential to keep your pc running.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Turn UAC back on, like what are you even doing.

fishmech posted:

Why did you turn it off?

wolrah posted:

Because allowing everything you run to have unrestricted admin privileges is loving stupid?

Almost all software should never have admin privileges ever. The majority of the programs that actually need it only need it very intermittently. UAC provides for that. It's the Windows equivalent of using "sudo" on *nix systems.

If UAC is causing you any significant amount of annoyance, it means either you're doing some really weird poo poo that you probably shouldn't be doing or you're using some ancient trash software written by fucktards who think it's still Windows 98.

Klyith posted:

Fully disabling UAC in win10 is a Bad Idea™ because it makes your computer completely insecure, but also other parts of the OS are now built expecting it to be there. It handles security credentials for things besides the annoying UAC prompt, those things will refuse to run if they get no response from a disabled service rather than an "ok".

If you want to have a loaded gun constantly pointed at your own feet you can set UAC to never notify, which will leave the service running and just let malware or whatever run without asking you. Disabling it entirely through group policy or turning off the service is no bueno.


I learned my lesson about this a few years ago when I found out disabling the firewall service also fucks things up. Don't disable random services on win10. (It hasn't stopped win10 from making GBS threads itself on me, but at least now I don't have to blame myself for being an idiot.)

Hipster_Doofus posted:

So anyway, why did you disable UAC, pray tell?

Geemer posted:

You know that's still actively being developed, right? The latest release was in July and works just fine with Windows 10, only needs UAC confirmation when you run the installer for updating it.

fishmech posted:

Update your foobar2000 and/or one of the plugins you're using, they fixed UAC handling right when Windows Vista released. Also you can disable the dimming without breaking UAC altogether or making it auto-allow.

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

you might want to have a good long think about running a poorly written torrent app that is constantly sending and receiving arbitrary content from the web as root

Khablam posted:

I quite literally don't know of a torrent program that requires admin to run.
piratebob .. are you still using installers you burned to a CD-R in 2005?

Please use patchmypc/ninite to get actual modern free solutions to these problems.

Flipperwaldt posted:

Yeah that shouldn't be happening for either of those programs, even that ancient version of uTorrent. Did you install them as portable (ie where they write their settings to the folder they're in) at some point and have now dumped them somewhere in program files or something?

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

I have so many questions.

Buff Hardback posted:

Bit late, but disabling the dimming on UAC (aka removing its secure desktop mode) is functionally equivalent to turning UAC off. If it's not running in secure desktop mode, anything else can interact with the UAC dialog meaning that something can just automatically accept it for you.

mystes posted:

It's not showing a fake UAC prompt if that's what you're thinking. It's using tricks (doing stuff through programs that are built into windows) so that no UAC prompts are shown unless you have it set to "Always Prompt."

Actual ransomware does this and won't necessarily get caught by Windows Defender or other antivirus programs.

You end up with ransomware by not keeping your software up to date, installing poo poo off the internet, or just being really unlucky and encountering a 0-day vulnerability in your browser or whatever.

Klyith posted:

That sounds like a feature that was added by software / drivers for your mouse.

Klyith posted: