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Thank you for your insight and reply. Seems like the old story, if it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is. Lots of stuff on the market these days that promise everything under the sun. Thank you again

Does anyone know if the " Fixme Stick" really works? It is advertised on Amazon as well as other computer sites. It is supposed to work before you boot up windows. Thank you in advance for your input.

Do you want the complete log, when I bring it up it is on note pad. Or do you want the update log of updates from the control panel ( down loaded updates)

I must admit I haven't done that yet. Are these apps on the internet and available? Thank your for reminding me. I will get on it and inform you of what I find.

I have tried many of your suggestions. Here is what has happened so far. Tried the update trouble shooter six more times. It says everything has been fixed except for a new problem. I now get the error code 0x8008005. I have checked on the MS help sites and there seems to be several ways to...

I do agree with you it could be the hardware. Except for the following: I have three laptops that ran or are now running Win 7 sp1. On all three I started having the same problems when the various down load updates started coming out about win 10. In July after having the cpu problems for...

Thank you for the info. I will give it a try. I did read information from MS that they were going to update win 7 and 8 the same as Win 10. Thank you again. p.s. any idea why the high CPU for running Win update. Seems this may be a long standing problem

Thanks One dumb question What are you calling an elevated command prompt. And another interesting fact, I just booted up another computer that had not been on since Dec 2015. It uses win 7 home. When I went to check for updates by the control panel (Check for updates) the msg came across...

System.. Windows 7 pro sp1. Lenovo lap top, last update registers as 08/05/16 Problem.. When I use the check for updates from the control panel it tells me the last check date is 08.08.16 last updated 08/05/16. When I try to go to windows updater and check for up dates the green bar just...