Do you get an error upon every restart in 8.1?

[MaXimus]

After doing all the Windows updates on a clean install of 8.1 Pro x64, when I restart, I would get an error message but it's too quick for me to even read or write it. This is even without any drivers or software installed yet. It's random, happens a lot but one out of 5 times it wouldn't happen and the restart would happen normally....

anyone else?

 

[MaXimus]

I was finally able to take a snapshot of the error:

Some of the errors I see in Event View are:

Event ID 20:

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80246010: Microsoft.XboxLIVEGames.

(I don't have any metro apps installed though except for the ones that cannot be uninstalled like Photos and Webcam)

Event ID 1008:

The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.

Event ID 1023:

Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL rdyboost. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.

Event ID 3028:

The gatherer object cannot be initialized.

Context: Windows Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details:
The specified object cannot be found. Specify the name of an existing object. (HRESULT : 0x80040d06) (0x80040d06)



Event ID 3029:

The plug-in in <Search.TripoliIndexer> cannot be initialized.

Context: Windows Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details:
The specified object cannot be found. Specify the name of an existing object. (HRESULT : 0x80040d06) (0x80040d06)

Event ID 3057:

The plug-in manager <Search.TripoliIndexer> cannot be initialized.

Context: Windows Application

Details:
(HRESULT : 0x8e5e0713) (0x8e5e0713)



Event ID 3058:

The application cannot be initialized.

Context: Windows Application

Details:
The specified object cannot be found. Specify the name of an existing object. (HRESULT : 0x80040d06) (0x80040d06)

Event ID 3079:

Notifications for the volume D:\ are not active.

Context: Windows Application

Details:
The volume change journal is not active. (HRESULT : 0x8007049b) (0x8007049b)



Event ID 10001:

Unable to start a DCOM Server: {E9513610-F218-4DDA-B954-2C7E6BA7CABB} as Unavailable/Unavailable. The error:
"740"
Happened while starting this command:
C:\PROGRA~2\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\Driver\1050\INTEL3~1 \IDriver.exe -Embedding


Many Event ID 10016:

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}
and APPID
{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}
to the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM SID (S-1-5-18) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

 

[MaXimus]

I solved the issue finally.

Here is what I did differently this time, I don't know which of the below steps did it but I`m happy now:

1) Instead of using the latest ISO from Micro$haft, I used the Dell Windows 8.1 DVD that DELL sent me when I bought it since it originally shipped with Windows 8 DVD and not 8.1, this is a red DVD that says DELL Windows 8.1 on it

2) Instead of signing in with an MS account right from the initial setup, I signed in using a local account, once all the updates were done and I was forced to sign in with an MS account to use OneDrive, I signed in with my MS account BUT this time I set the sync settings to NOT synchronize my metro apps and I've uninstalled all metro apps myself

3) Office 2013 365 installs another version of OneDrive even though Windows 8.1 has OneDrive already, I always uninstalled that extra version that Office installed. This time, I didn't, I left it everything as it and to my surprise, there were no conflicts or anything, the OneDrive that Office installed simply would now redirect me to the Windows OneDrive and wouldn't initiate the initial setup like it does on Windows 7 where you have to sign in and choose your OneDrive location

4) Since Office 2013 installed OneDrive again, it also created 4 new startup entries pertaining to OneDrive sync and sync in progress and browser integration, I used to always disable those entries, this time, I left them alone

5) I did not install the latest nVIDIA Graphics Driver + GeForce Experience, instead, I installed the old driver from DELL which is ancient (v332.70) and did NOT install GeForce experience. Who knows, maybe this new nVIDIA Shield and streaming stuff caused issues as I did see many errors in event log upon every restart because of them.

6) I always had auto login enabled so I wouldn't have to enter my password each time I login to Windows via the netplwiz tool, this time, I didn't touch that tool and have learned to live with manually entering my password each time because according to my research, it seems that if auto login was enabled, it creates some kind of problem when you run programs as an admin by right clicking on them and choosing Run as Admin, and what I also noticed is that it is somehow true, if I restart and don't launch any programs as admin then reboot again after a while, the issue didn't happen, but when I did run any program by right clicking/ run as admin the issue might happen. Who knows, just wanted to eliminate all possibilities this time.

7) I used to always rename the start menu program folders and the shortcuts in them as in:

If a program says: MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition, I would rename it to MiniTool Partition Wizard just to make things look tidyOr like if I had all the Adobe applications installed, they would create all their shortcuts in the main start menu not in a folder called Adobe, so I used to create a folder called Adobe and put all the Adobe related shortcuts under that one folder8)I used to use a hosts file with only few entries in them to block certain stuff like Open Candy crap, this time, I didn't touch the hosts file
This time, I didn't rename or touch anything in the Start Menu folder

9) I used to delete everything under the Windows\Software Distribution\Download folder since those are just the temporary downloaded Windows updates and once installed, I *believed they are not needed* this time, I left them all alone and did the standard Disk Cleanup that's in Windows and even though it was cleaning the Windows Updates, it didn't delete any of the files there........hmmm...

Not a single error on restart and it's been 24 hours