Starting with Windows Vista and Windows 2008, if you want to see who and when changes Windows Firewall with Advanced Security rules and other settings you must enable either the “Policy Changes” auditing category or rather the “Filtering Platform Policy Change” and “Other Policy Change Events” auditing subcategories. Afte you have enabled this auditing, system will log success and failure audits into the Security event log whenever any firewall setting changes.

you can enable the auditing with Group Policy, Local Security Policy or from command line:

auditpol /set /subcategory:”Filtering Platform Policy Change” /success:enable /failure:enable
auditpol /set /subcategory:”Other Policy Change Events” /success:enable /failure:enable

In the process of filtering Internet traffic, all firewalls have some type of logging feature that documents how the firewall handled various types of traffic. These logs can provide valuable information like source and destination IP addresses, port numbers, and protocols. You can also use the Windows Firewall log file to monitor TCP and UDP connections and packets that are blocked by the firewall.

Source: How to Track Firewall Activity with the Windows Firewall Log

Sysinternals Suite

By Mark Russinovich
Updated: February 18, 2019
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Introduction

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver.

The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities: AccessChk, AccessEnum, AdExplorer, AdInsight, AdRestore, Autologon, Autoruns, BgInfo, BlueScreen, CacheSet, ClockRes, Contig, Coreinfo, Ctrl2Cap, DebugView, Desktops, Disk2vhd, DiskExt, DiskMon, DiskView, Disk Usage (DU), EFSDump, FindLinks, Handle, Hex2dec, Junction, LDMDump, ListDLLs, LiveKd, LoadOrder, LogonSessions, MoveFile, NotMyFault, NTFSInfo, PageDefrag, PendMoves, PipeList, PortMon, ProcDump, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, PsExec, PsFile, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsKill, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, PsPasswd, PsPing, PsService, PsShutdown, PsSuspend, PsTools, RAMMap, RegDelNull, RegHide, RegJump, Registry Usage (RU), SDelete, ShareEnum, ShellRunas, Sigcheck, Streams, Strings, Sync, Sysmon, TCPView, VMMap, VolumeID, WhoIs, WinObj, ZoomIt

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Source: Sysinternals Suite – Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs

1. Run a command prompt as administrator.
2. Navigate to where the psexec executable is located.
3. Run .\psexec -s -i cmd.exe to open a new cmd window.
4. In the new cmd window run taskschd.msc (or %windir%\system32\taskschd.msc).
5. Edit your task like before. You shouldn’t be prompted for credentials.

Source: windows 10 – Can’t modify task “Reboot” in win10 home – Super User

Change the way Windows 10 Updates Using Registry

Customize a Windows 10 update without receiving any forced updates on your computer. Here’s how to make the change in Registry:

1. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command.

2. Type regedit, and click OK to open the Registry.
Browse the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

3. Right-click the Windows (folder) key, select New, and then click Key.

4. Name the new key WindowsUpdate and press Enter.

5. Right-click the newly created key, select new, and click Key.

6. Name the new key AU and press Enter.
Inside the newly created key, right-click on the right side, select New, and click on DWORD (32-bit) Value.

7. Name the new key AUOptions and press Enter.
Double-click the newly created key and change its value to 2. It’s for “Notify for download and notify for install”. Click OK.

8. Close the Registry to complete the task.

Using this value prevents Windows 10 from downloading updates automatically, and you’ll get a notification when new updates are available. By this way, you can avoid any auto Windows 10 update effectively.

Source: How to Disable Windows 10 Update in Every Way – EaseUS