Windomaniac
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Hello,
I've been living with this issue for quite some time, but now I am trying to get some information and possibly fixes.
I noticed that my computer occasionally starts to work slower than it should, especially it affects me in games and etc.
Then I started to look more into issue and found a local service host which consumes 50% of my CPU usage. Obviously this didn't look usual for me, so I kept looking and found out that Windows Update service is behind this. As I turn it off, this high usage disappears, but it kept happening again and again... Until, I turned off the automatic detection of updates and it didn't bother me again. Then after some time I figured that my PC is not getting any required updates, which is not good at all. So, I decided to start looking for updates manually....But that didn't work at all. I've been waiting for hours every day, looking for updates with that high CPU usage, and it just kept telling me:
"Checking for updates". And nothing happens, absolutely nothing, no errors, no popups, no updates found, just endless checking. I ran some commands in CMD to check for any system files corruptions, but everything was fine.
So I want to ask for some community help, I hope somebody knows the solution to my problem. Any kind of help would be appreciated. Thank you.
I've been living with this issue for quite some time, but now I am trying to get some information and possibly fixes.
I noticed that my computer occasionally starts to work slower than it should, especially it affects me in games and etc.
Then I started to look more into issue and found a local service host which consumes 50% of my CPU usage. Obviously this didn't look usual for me, so I kept looking and found out that Windows Update service is behind this. As I turn it off, this high usage disappears, but it kept happening again and again... Until, I turned off the automatic detection of updates and it didn't bother me again. Then after some time I figured that my PC is not getting any required updates, which is not good at all. So, I decided to start looking for updates manually....But that didn't work at all. I've been waiting for hours every day, looking for updates with that high CPU usage, and it just kept telling me:
"Checking for updates". And nothing happens, absolutely nothing, no errors, no popups, no updates found, just endless checking. I ran some commands in CMD to check for any system files corruptions, but everything was fine.
So I want to ask for some community help, I hope somebody knows the solution to my problem. Any kind of help would be appreciated. Thank you.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
- CPU
- Intel Celeron CPU N2840 2.16GHz
- Motherboard
- X553MA
- Memory
- 4GB Installed Memory (RAM)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD Graphics
- Browser
- IE
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender (default)