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Hangup cause identified but not fixed
I've several times reported an intermittent hangup where I cannot start programs for up to 10 minutes, but already running programs continue running. (The 10 minutes is a sort of a guess. I usually power down and restart rather than wait.) I've confirmed at least one cause - Windows Update: when it's installing some updates I cannot start any programs. And one of the updates I get (nearly) daily is the "Microsoft .Net Native Framework Package 1.2.23205.0" fix.
Today I was hit by the hangup and disconnected from the web - pulled my ethernet cable from my router. About 3 minutes later the hangup ended and the Event View showed Windows Update failures. Success, sort of.
There are a number of threads - some marked "Solved" - that apparently do not solve the problem, but I have not seen a single posting from anyone reporting success from anyone using them. Even the supposedly solution given by Microsoft was prevented from working by an insufficient access authority. (I haven't tried them all because some of them do a lot more that supposedly fix this problem.)
Does anyone know of a solution that has actually worked for people with this problem?