I think I screwed something up removing the drivers and software for my bust Canon photo printer prior to installing a new printer. Many of the usual...
The basic difficulty is you seem to have run some scripts or taken actions which have potentially affected a number of things. It is entirely obscure...
Start Autoruns, right-click the "IObit" entry, select "Copy", paste its contents into Notepad and see if it contains a reference to "Liveupdate.exe"....
Under search entry: No liveupdate. Under services: also no liveupdate. Autoruns seem to validate the absence of liveupdate in my system. Could it be...