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Old June 24th 18, 03:07 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default What else do you do when setting up a new Win10 desktop from scratch?

On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:47:55 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:44:24 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

I have one question about whether the disabling of autostart on Windows
updates is the same action as disabling autostart on crashes?


Here is a shot of how to disable autostart upon updates:
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_reboot_task.jpg

I'm not sure if that's the same as disabling autostart on crashes that Char
Jackson kindly suggests above?

Is it?


No, that's different.

If you go to System Properties, select the Advanced tab, there will be 3
sections there. The third section is titled "Startup and Recovery", with
a Settings button. Click Settings, then on the next screen find the
"System failure" section. The second option there should be
"Automatically restart", and it's checked by default.

With that option enabled, a system crash causes the PC to restart. To
see what the problem was, you have to go looking in Event Viewer, as one
option. By disabling that option, the system will normally halt on the
BSoD so that you can a) clearly see that there was a critical system
issue, and b) you can see what the primary offender supposedly was.

Should *you* disable that option? I don't know. I'm just saying it's
something that I do because if there's a crash, I want it to be in my
face so that I can track down the cause and fix it.

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