

Since there are thousands of cases, investigating any one in particular does not make much sense. Here is a frequency table for the Results column, using default ProcMon filters, after around 30 seconds of idle monitoring: To my surprise, I still find a lot of the same. I decided to format my system partition and reinstall Windows.

I ran several virus / malware scans, ran checks on my SSD, and couldn't find anything. However, their frequency seemed highly suspicious. I understand that it is to be expected that some processes show these results. | svhost.exe | RegOpenKey | HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\\Keys | NAME NOT FOUND |Īlthough svhost.exe was frequently involved, it happened for many other processes as well. | svhost.exe | RegOpenKey | HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\\Keys | REPARSE | For instance: | Process Name | Operation | Path | Result | However, along the way I noticed that dozens, if not hundreds of processes per second, mostly registry operations, had non-success return values, as shown in ProcMon. After several reboots, checks and scans, the problem seemed to simply disappear. As much as I investigated, I couldn't find the cause. A few days ago, something happened to my laptop (running Windows 10) it took long minutes for common applications (Browser, VLC, etc.) to load.
