Windows Update hanging and causing 100% Disk usage

Ludleth

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Windows Update is looking for updates but it's stuck at 0% all the time.
After opening command prompt and running the following:

net stop wuauserv
net stop bits

and deleting everything in C:\SoftwareDistribution
restarting the 2 services:
net start bits
net start wuauserv

the disk usage drops to 0%

I try to download the updates but I get an error: 0x80070643
I tried running the Windows Update debugger but it didn't help.

Any ideas how to solve this problem?


Edit:
sfc /scannow didn't find anything either.
 

valeman2012

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Microsoft Force update are causing problems to windows update and Windows 10 itself

Even Reset or Reformat would not fix it.

* I actually want to apply the latest security update (which probaly a patch to prevent "recent wikileaks" were CIA getting info from computers"
 

Ludleth

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Updating Windows, turning off Superfetch and
this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f38ed/guide_how_to_disable_data_logging_in_w10/
solved the disk usage problem.