Bizarre problem

Soldato
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I've done all that I know to try and sort this out and as much as google has been useful, I have yet to find a soultion to my problem. Hopefully one of you will be able to help me out:

It started a week or so ago, the PC would start up and the notorious svchost.exe would spike up to 98% CPU usage. Closing it would cause the internet to disconnect and such. Recently, it's stopped spiking on startup, however, when I try to run the Network Setup Wizard, I encounter some problems. (I need to do this, because for some reason, I can't access the internet on the other PC) I can get through to the final stage, where the animation of the PC and the configuration happens - after a few moments in there, svchost.exe spikes and Network Setup Wizard just sits there, constantly doing that animation and going nowhere.

If I endtask on the svchost.exe, it stops with an error saying it could not be completed, the internet drops out too - however, this is strange too, it still says I am connected, although I cannot browse the internet. I have to restart to get back the internet.

I've done multiple AVG scans, Ad-Aware Scans but it hasn't fixed it. I tried a HijackThis scan, but when it gets to the O23 Services part, the PC shutsdown and I get that lovely bluescreen crap.

I also have problems with Windows Firewall turning itself off, and me not being able to restart the Firewall/ICS service.

I'm at a loss here, I can't complete the Network Setup Wizard, svchost.exe spikes, and I can't access the internet on my other PC (which I have had to manually assign IPs to because they won't renew IP otherwise).

Help would be most appreciated, thank you.
 
Windows Update caused my svchost to spike, though it didn't cause any of the other problems you're having.
Still can't turn it back on without slowing my system down to a crawl. Wish I knew what it was - can't even update manually.
 
Mirroring what hitman said - reverting to Windows Update fixes the svchost problem, however I was sure they released an update to fix this so it may be something else.
 
I turned off the Automatic Updates service after doing my first google search about the problems - and have had them off since. So I don't think it could be that.

EDIT: I just checked the services and turned Automatic Updates service back on to be greeted by 9 updates, some of which were security fixes. It seems that my PC doesn't like one of them, as I hit the same blue screen + shutdown as I did with the HJT scan. It's baffling. I'm getting on the blue screen "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" as the message at the top. :/
 
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