Re: Is wheel-spinning replacing nagware as the new Windows 10 incentive?
I had that problem too. So I manually downloaded and installed KB3172605. It fixed the problem. No more waiting for days for updates to download, no more 100% CPU usage by svchost.exe. But, of course, that fix broke Windows Server Essentials connector. This is the best backup program I've seen so I want to keep it working. So I removed KB3172605.
And the problem returned. So I disabled Windows Update, waited until the next patch Tuesday, and installed KB3172605 again. I made a note of which updates were out and uninstalled KB3172605. Surprisingly, the problem went away.
What was going on is that KB3172605 is a collection of patches, which included several updates that broke the Server Essentials connector. This is a Microsoft program, and Windows updates break it. Why can't Microsoft get their own programs to be compatible with their own updates?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
