

Not sure where you got the quote on your coffee mug but it reminded me of a quote from 1977 by Ken Olson, CEO of DEC Computer Systems: "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. I would recommend you send this info to Microsoft so they can make a Knowledge Base Article about it since a lot of people like me seem to be having this problem and the other common fixes didn't work for us. I think you could accomplish the same thing using services.msc. The problematic app will be shown as 'not responding.' Select the app and press Force Quit. I went into msconfig and disabled the service and then restarted the computer, which ended up stopping the service. To fix an application stuck with a spinning cursor: If and get rid of a spinning ballyou know which app is hanging, press Cmd-alt-escape and you'll see the Force Quit dialog box. The wuauserv service did not stop for me using PowerShell command - it just hanged trying to shut down - shutting down and restarting the computer didn't help. I did all the other recommended stuff like clearing the app cache folder, re-registering the app, checking for corrupt user account file, etc. Your fix worked like a champ and for some reason no one at Microsoft or any other tech support forum has mentioned this fix, at least that I could find in an hour of searching.

10:44:14 PM I just spent 2 hours trying to fix this problem and stumbled on your webpage.
