For a rock solid stable windows rig , the following should be disabled windows update, defender, firewall , action center maintenance , sleep time , and setting apperance for best performance , not using windows 10 but most of this things are in different windows versions and they are the cause of all mining problems
Don't turn off Update, Defender, or Firewall. Even if nothing is ever running besides your mining software, a Windows machine connected to the Internet that is not continually patched will quickly become vulnerable to remote exploitation.
Windows firewall is a pathetic joke and always has been.
You can't expect REAL protection when the OS your firewall software is running on top of is full of security holes itself.
There is a REASON all of my Windows machines ALWAYS connect to the Internet through a firewall built on LINUX or Cisco's router/firewall OS.
INFINITELY better protection than Windows will ever manage on it's own.