Hi Saltgrass,
third-party fixit? I thought so too for a second, because I had just tried Tuneup Utilities, and it does these kinds of things. A graphic interface for built-in system processes that can be better run from the command line it seems to me.
But I had scrapped TU a few hours before this because of its incessant nagging about how there was only 29 days left and I had to hurry to register etc.
This kind of nagging has the opposite effect on me to what I think was intended - I eradicate it, but good, using Revo. Good riddance.
I don't recall anything from the Action Center. I am kind of insensitized to messages from it as it pops up from time to time, urging me to turn on the UAC and to let Windows Update install...