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
    2020-08-27T22:46:06+00:00

    Have you figured out whats causing this? I am having same issue

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-27T22:45:33+00:00

    Hey, did you ever figure out a solution? I also get 500 of these at a time.

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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
    2020-07-21T09:45:28+00:00

    RUN gpedit.msc

    Local Computer configuration

    \Administrative Templates

    \Network

    \Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services

    \Peer Name Resolution Protocol

    \Global Clouds

    \Link-Local Clouds

    \Site-Local Clouds

        (Under all 3 headers)   

    Turn off Multicast Bootstrap    Enabled

        Set PNRP cloud to resolve only    Enabled   

        Turn off PNRP cloud creation    Enabled   

    \Network\Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services

        Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services    Enabled   

    \Network\Network Connections\Windows Defender Firewall\Domain Profile

        Windows Defender Firewall: Protect all network connections    Enabled   

    \Network\Network Connections\Windows Defender Firewall\Standard Profile

        Windows Defender Firewall: Protect all network connections    Enabled

    Forget the warnings

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