You do not need to update windows these days. It does so automatically. So might your graphics driver.
It should open and write a log.txt regardless. If it can't even do that, maybe it can't because of no write permission or because it does not find it's own folder.
Did you try the shift method? Press shift, hold shift, click right on the exe, select open, wait a bit, then release shift.
You can try starting the games by using the sdk of renpy. Or maybe the sdk would tell you, if anything is making problems on your system.