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How to fix Windows 10 Computer restarting every Monday at 8:40 p.m.?

My computer running Windows 10 has been restarting every Monday evening at 8:40 for several months. Can't find the problem. I have checked the Automatic Restart checkbox. I get several DistributedCOM Errors in Event Viewer.

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{6B3B8D23-FA8D-40B9-8DBD-B950333E2C52}
and APPID
{4839DDB7-58C2-48F5-8283-E1D1807D0D7D}
to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) 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.

Andrew Leniart

Hi Joel,

Is this an upgraded Windows 10 install?

The error apparently has something to do with a bad 'Apple related software' install.

See this web page for detailed rectification instructions.

Hope that's helpful.

Andrew Leniart

Failing the above, I'm assuming you've checked to make sure there is no scheduled task set to restart the machine every Monday evening at 8:40pm? Check also that there isn't a scheduled task that isn't set to restart, but around that time. This could give further indication of what the restarting problem may be.

Rajat Sehgal

Hi Joel,
can u share output from this cmd from cmd prompt :-

schtasks /query /v /fo CSV > tasks.csv

Joel Young

ASKER

Tried deleting all Apple software on the machine. Also checked that there is no scheduled task. Just done last week and restarted again last night.

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