This is my laptop so naturally I'm its admin. I appreciate that this is a Windows rather than a Dell issue but for some mysterious reason, the "storage" service in 10 is continually disabling itself and no matter how many times I use the manager to restart storage - I restart in "automatic" mode - the program is in a matter of minutes defaulting back to "disable."

Infuriatingly, when I relaunch the service, after repairing it via mgr., it informs me after say 10 minutes that it's once again disabled on the order of the administrator, which of course it isn't.

I've tried to use the properties utility to order the service to operate in other modes like manual and auto (delayed start) to see if that will stick but nothing ever does no matter how often I do this. Inevitably, I end up in the default disable mode. It's been suggested to me that I should reload the OS but I'm reluctant to do it because it's as everyone knows it's a pain. Is there some triple secret remedy to this anomalous behavior that someone out there who is a Windows genius is aware of that will repair this glitch permanently? Thanks.