Excessive Security Log Events - Event ID 5379 - Windows 10

Anonymous
2020-04-26T06:15:06+00:00

I have been experiencing Windows Application crashes on my 3 month old Windows 10 install. While troubleshooting, I noticed that there 50+ security events each minute in the Event Viewer under Windows Logs > Security.  

Is this normal?  

The majority are Audit Success Messages with the Event ID 5379.  There are approximately 50 of these identical messages every minute. Thanks for any insight on this.

See below for typical Message:

Credential Manager credentials were read.

Subject:

Security ID: DESKTOP\*****

Account Name: *****

Account Domain: DESKTOP

Logon ID: 0x354889

Read Operation: Enumerate Credentials

This event occurs when a user performs a read operation on stored credentials in Credential Manager.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-09-28T11:06:07+00:00

    Hello, I think I figured out the problem. I disabled all the tasks in the Task Scheduler and voila - problem solved. There are many applications running in the background and some of them are repeatable every 10-60 minute. I think that one of them was responsible for the opening cmd console and running 5379 event, but I don't know which one.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-11T09:31:02+00:00

    It's seems to be a DOCM issue related to a ADVAPI not cooperating with Windows. I don't think I've solved it but I'd look into the DISM hierarchy fix.

    It seems more stable after running through this:

    https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-08T23:11:32+00:00

    I'm having the same issue except I get over 500 of these events at a time

    Same and I am on a gaming PC so it happens a lot when I am playing which causes me to freeze and then my game crashes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-04T16:07:39+00:00

    I'm having the same issue except I get over 500 of these events at a time

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-26T21:50:19+00:00

    It looks like microsoft is rolling out bugs to force people to update their hardware.

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