If I am playing a game I can always tell when it is 5:30 pm. Not sure if it is noticeable if I'm not playing, I'll have to try to test it out and see what happens.

I started noticing this a few weeks ago. If I'm playing, whatever game it is, I get kicked to the menu (or a "pause" type screen) right at 5:30. Every time!

Any thoughts about this? Does this happen to anybody else?

I've never heard of such a thing - unless you have some sort of "time alarm" set somewhere! I'd suggest looking in your clock settings.

Deleting my question of where to find that info. I looked in settings and found some info about alarms and clocks, and I opened up the clocks app. Nothing!

Going along the lines of Draclvr you could also check your Anti Virus software and other Malware software like Malwarebytes to see if they are set to do a Scan at or around 5:30 PM, if yes you could change the time that it Scans your system.
Good luck in finding this Time Ghost on your machine.

Thanks, Starcom. I was thinking of something along those lines too - some task that somehow got scheduled for that time of day.

That was also going to be my next suggestion.

Nope! I was just in this thread when the clock changed to 5:30 and there wasn't anything to see. I guess maybe it is just when I am in a game. There is nothing scanning and no scans scheduled for this time of day.

OK, then that's just bizarre!

Yeah, I don't know why all these weird things happen to me. Anyway, it doesn't seem to hurt anything. I'm able to "continue" and keep playing. If I remember, I'll try to be in some other things at that time to see if I notice anything else.

You definitely seem to attract the oddities of computers, oldbroad!

By any chance are the games you are playing at that time are games in the ​​​​​​​Dark Fall series by Jonathan Boakes (lots of ghosts) or this new Free game "Episode 666 , which could explain the mysterious 5:30PM whammy.....Mouhahaha

Starcom, you are EVIL! LOL!!!

No, Starcom. There have been several different casual games and one time Syberia 4, where I had just made some choice and thought I somehow ended the game badly.

Check windows update to see if any time settings are set in there.

I don't see anything on the Windows Update screen but not sure where to look exactly. ?

The only thing I see in the Updates screen is to change active hours. This tells Windows when not to do updates.

My active hours are "Currently 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM"

So are mine, oldbroad. I think that's the default.

Yeah, I don't change any of that stuff since I don't know what any of it is!

one last thing oldbroad, when you went to settings/updates did you see an update with the Letters and numbers:
KB5028244, it an update that you can choose to do yourself if you wish, but according to MS it has several fixes, one of them is: .

Maybe Draclvr can see if this is actually a fix for your problem of your games timing out.

Actually, that update IS sitting there Starcom.

What is suggested by any of you to do with it? Should it be downloaded and installed? I thought Windows 10 just does what it wants with updates and have never changed anything or done anything manual with it. I didn't know I could.

MS will Push it's Important updates and Security fixes but there are Other updates that are Optional and left to the User to go for it, some of these Optional updates later on become one that is pushed by MS as it becomes combined with other fixes, updates. I went for this update and No problems so far, again, we will wait to see what Draclvr and others think.

Thanks Starcom! I did have Windows 7 set up to not automatically install updates but I was never real sure about installing them all since I don't understand enough about them. As stated already though, I didn't even know I could do that with Windows 10 which I decided was good so I wouldn't have to make decisions about stuff I didn't understand, but, I'm pretty sure there was an update that messed with my video card drivers. I can't allow myself to worry about it though. I read up on it but am not about to try fixing it.

Whether you can control updates or not depends on which version of Windows 10 you have. Windows 10 Home does not allow you to pick and choose - all updates will be applied. The most you can do is "hide" them using a separate utility.

If you have Windows 10 Pro or above, then you can customize which updates are installed - up to a point. I just did an update last night. I searched and didn't find the one Starcom mentioned on my machine.

It is an optional update for Windows 10 Home and you can choose whether to install it or not. It was released on July 25 and includes security updates, so I would suggest going ahead and installing it.

Okay, thanks.