I agree with Mettelus. Sounds like something else is hogging the device. Do you have other programs running when this happens?
If not it could simply be Windows Sounds hogging the device (which is best totally disabled on a DAW). I don't use 10 so I don't know how you'd turn that off.
Of course the other thing Mettelus is saying about "exclusive" stuff would keep it from happening even if other stuff is running... as I am starting to slowly learn about.
Thing is if you just upgraded to Windows 10 it likely totally fracked up any previous settings, optimizations and tweaks you previously did in Windows to make your audio stuff work. I'd go through and figure out how to set things back to how they were.
MS being "helpful" with their whacked out default settings... as usual.
Cheers.