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Ok Darin, i know i thought it was totally weird as well, but this is what i do and i'll run you through it. Please enter a valid product ID number and try again.

Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. How do I stop it? Should this not be impossible? In reply to DM's post on May 27, Anyone found the fix for this?

I tried disabling Windows Updates from Automatic Installation and also the Antivirus, yet the issue persists. Someone mentioned at ServerFault. In reply to abhidix's post on August 2, I have "fixed" it by reinstalling Windows from scratch Microsoft should either account for this or provide us with tools to diagnose it. Their product support is rubbish. Armin Zingler. In reply to WasteofTime's post on August 2, Hi, I know you wrote "Process explorer tells me nothing useful about the activity.

Often, threads with high disk activity also have higher CPU activity, so find such a thread by looking at the "CPU" column. Post the "start address" column of the suspicious thread s. This is not an unambiguous hint but maybe a start.

In reply to Armin Zingler's post on August 2, Hopefully somebody can do this I'm not experiencing the problem at the moment. I did try but a dll complained about the symbol server and pointed me to a Windows 8 SDK page which is a suggestion beyond my willingness to investigate. Examination of the logs show the best indicator of system instability or otherwise weirdness is the sppsvc returning 0x5 "Access Denied" which will immediately return that exit code after being run manually started via sc or by waiting for it to automatically restart.

This is the best indicator of system weirdness. Anywhere between days later the machine BSOD's. I believe that if the first two commands would behave the same that this state could be avoided. My suspicion is that ntoskrnl.

This is most apparent with AV tools. If my suspicion is true, then this should be considered a bug if only because the machine behaves differently when performing the same actions logically. I'm not sure what you're up to here. Why are you manually using taskkill against the Software Protection Service? Date: 12 June Date: 15 April Date: 10 April Date: 25 March Date: 17 March Date: 12 March Date: 13 January Date: 22 December Date: 11 December Date: 04 December Date: 19 November Date: 17 November Date: 25 September Date: 17 July Date: 19 June Date: 13 June Date: 03 June Date: 28 April Date: 14 April Date: 31 March Date: 21 March Date: 30 January Date: 24 January Date: 09 January Date: 12 December Date: 21 October Date: 13 September Date: 30 August Date: 09 August