Good advice for sure. I didn`t change many things in this PC. It`s only my kitchen laptop...not my music or entertainment PC...thanking my lucky stars. hahaUltraJv wrote:The only way to know which services affect this are to put them all back at default state. Thats not easy unless you noted exactly what you changed. Any or all tweaks/changes can cause this kind of thing. You may not be able to fix it easily if its got into an unknown state now.
Let`s see...@ reboot 18 of the 22 updates I had selected to install, installed. It took 2 hrs! ha.(the remaining 4 of 22 failed to install)
So far, Trusted Installer / Windows Modular Installer service ran at 90% CPU for 3 mins or so and stopped.Good. Sounds normal so far.
If anything changes, i`ll post it. maybe the update problem is gone?
Considering all this new info, it may have been that there was no actual software prob. It may have been that the Update service just takes too much CPU and way too long to finish.
...and we all lived happily ever after...the end.