Windows 10: [SOLVED] HELP! Suddenly cannot RDP from my Windows 10 Pro machine to my other Windows 10...

Hi,


For some reason, starting this morning (9/14/2018), I cannot RDP (mstsc /admin) from my Windows 10 Pro machine to another local Windows 10 Pro machine that I have.


The last time this was working was yesterday.


I can connect and get the login window, but after entering my username and password, it just sits there with the hourglass.


I have rebooted both the target Windows 10 machine and the client Windows 10 machine, but still have the same problem.


Also I ran updates and both machines should be updated to current, but still get the same problem.


winver on the client Windows 10 shows:


Version 1803 (OS Build 17134.285


I will post winver from the target machine in a bit...


Anyone help???


Thanks,

Jim


EDIT 1: Just checked on the target Win10 machine and winver shows the same information as above, so both the client and the target are OS Build 17134.285.


EDIT 2: FYI, I have also tried to RDP to some test machines that I have on AWS (Windows 2016 servers) and THOSE RDP are also not working... actually, it looks like they are taking a REALLY, REALLY long time to log in, but I am not sure yet if they eventually get logged in (doing a test again now).


EDIT 3: BTW, on the AWS test, the window is stuck on the blue colored screen and says "Please wait for the Local Session Manager" and has been stuck on that screen for over 5 minutes now.


EDIT 4: It's been quite a long time now and still, two RDP windows, one to my local Windows 10 machine and one to one of my AWS Windows 2016 machine are stuck. Former shows an all black screen with nothing else and latter shows "Please wait..." like before.


EDIT 5: Looking at event viewer on my local Windows 10 target machine, I am seeing some Event ID 10016 and 10010 events that appear to be about the same time as my failed/stuck RDP attempts into that machine.


The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}
and APPID
{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}
to the user BIGBIGWINDOWS\jl SID (S-1-5-21-2178935235-467427185-1411828204-1001) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.



Does anyone know what might be the problem and how to fix it? I am guessing that SOMETHING might've changed due to some windows update or something as I don't think I purposedly made any changes myself, and this machine gets restarted at least once every day or so, since it is one of my dev machines.

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