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I appear to have the Cortana high CPU problem. Is there a fix?
After installing this update, I tried to check the "winver". But the search function does not work. Blank window, doesn´t respond to any input.
I got the 0x800F081F error twice, am now trying a third time after the reboot. If that fails -- and it just did -- I'm trying the manual .msu download & install routine instead. Running now, copying packages to the update cache, standalone installer doing its thing, taking a while, just completed with an Update not installed status. Apparently some Update repairs are called for. Off to try that now. Will report back later.
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Just ran through Shawn's excellent Reset Windows Update tutorial, and am now trying again. Into install phase: let's see if it blows up again. Research says it can be related to .NET 3.5, so perhaps it's hanging on the latest update to that environment. We'll see: it's been getting up to 100% then blowing up in the cleanup phase prior to reboot. 19% -- 20% -- sitting at this level much longer than before -- just jumped to 44% -- sitting there too -- 100% -- still blowing up with the same error. I'm stuck, I guess ...
I had the Cortana high cpu issue, seem to have fixed it though I've got no idea how.
I re-enabled all the Cortana stuff (I'd disabled it using ShutUp10), restarted and waited to see if it would finish whatever it was doing, after ~10 mins out of frustration I ended the Cortana task. It relaunched itself immediately but this time seemed to get wherever it was going after a few seconds, all good now.
Edit: blocking Cortana in ShutUp10 caused Cortana to go crazy again, guess they're forcing it on us now.
Fix here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search]
"BingSearchEnabled“=dword:00000001
Restart pc enjoy 👍