Windows 10: Windows Explorer freezing, Microsoft Store background task using 100% CPU and svchosts...

Occasionally my Lenovo ideapad 310 running Windows 10 freezes up. Windows Explorer freezes which causes the taskbar to become unresponsive and Windows shortcuts and apps (settings, etc.) to not open. Open apps will remain working and programs such as Chrome and Office can be run from the desktop or Run. The taskbar will not minimise on fullscreen videos (which is normally how I notice it).


Restarting Windows Explorer from Task Manager will cause Windows Explorer to close but not fully start up. Only the basic taskbar (i.e. no 3rd party apps pinned) reopens but doesn't respond and my desktop is blank with no wallpaper. The only solution I have found is to restart my system. The first time this happened, it took 2 restarts and the 2nd restart took over an hour, but normally this only takes ~5 minutes when this issue has come up since.


I've spotted two other symptoms:

1: I've noticed that, when this happens, many svchost.exe's become "Suspended" in Task Manager. Unsure if this means anything though.




2: This happens every couple weeks but only during the last few times that this has happened, I have found a Microsoft Store background task to be using 100% of my CPU. Ending this task does not unfreeze Windows. This Store issue has not happened every time I get this issue however but maybe it's related.




I have tried:

System scans with my antivirus (avira) and ADWCleaner

System health checks with CrystalDiskInfo

DISM and sfc commands


As I said, this only happens sporadically but I will update this post when this happens again.

Thanks

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Windows store background task 100% cpu

Thanks for the generl advice, but there isnt a store service this is a background task (backgroundtaskhost.exe), the fact a background task is allowed to use 100% cpu is clearly a bug, but anyway this is most likley scheduled task but there are no obvious
candidates in the list of tasks.

 

Windows Explorer freezing, Microsoft Store background task using 100% CPU and svchosts being suspended

Occasionally my Lenovo ideapad 310 running Windows 10 freezes up. Windows Explorer freezes which causes the taskbar to become unresponsive and Windows shortcuts and apps (settings, etc.) to not open. Open apps will remain working and programs such as Chrome
and Office can be run from the desktop or Run. The taskbar will not minimise on fullscreen videos (which is normally how I notice it).

Restarting Windows Explorer from Task Manager will cause Windows Explorer to close but not fully start up. Only the basic taskbar (i.e. no 3rd party apps pinned) reopens but doesn't respond and my desktop is blank with no wallpaper. The only solution I have
found is to restart my system. The first time this happened, it took 2 restarts and the 2nd restart took over an hour, but normally this only takes ~5 minutes when this issue has come up since.

I've spotted two other symptoms:

1: I've noticed that, when this happens, many svchost.exe's become "Suspended" in Task Manager. Unsure if this means anything though.





2: This happens every couple weeks but only during the last few times that this has happened, I have found a Microsoft Store background task to be using 100% of my CPU. Ending this task does not unfreeze Windows. This Store issue has not happened every time
I get this issue however but maybe it's related.





I have tried:

System scans with my antivirus (avira) and ADWCleaner

System health checks with CrystalDiskInfo

DISM and sfc commands

As I said, this only happens sporadically but I will update this post when this happens again.

Thanks

 

Windows store background task 100% cpu

Windows store background tasks runs CPU @ 100% and makes the machine unusable, How can i disable this task.

wondows 10 (15063)

HP ZBook 17 G3

Intel i7 6820HQ

32GB memory

1TB ssd