What is connected via USB ports?
Externally, a wireless keyboard & mouse, for pure convenience, I can disconnect them, experience tells me it won't make a scrap of difference, but I'll do so anyway since you asked... Also non-disconnectable built-in stuff like I believe the touch screen, card reader, etc., show up as USB devices. Nothing obvious I can do about those being connected.
I'm afraid I can't remove any smart card, since I don't and never have owned one. I'm consequently unable to say if the reader does or doesn't work, or even if it ever has under other operating systems.
I'm completely unsurprised that a (non-present) smart card would fail to respond to a request Windows decided to send to an empty reader though.
I'm far less surprised by Windows sending such a request apparently without any check to see if there was actually a card in there first.. because Microsoft.
WudfUsbccidDriver.dll is one of the driver files listed for the Smartcard reader in Device Manager. Quite how to troubleshoot with no card or way to test the reader I'm unsure.
I suppose I could try disabling the reader in device manager? Unlike the WiFi card, I can't physically remove it.
Post results for steps 2 - 5 in this link:
I hope running them in safe mode will do, no way that system is staying up long enough for any except possibly 5 to complete when booted normally especially with DriverVerifier active.
2) SFC: did not find any integrity violations.
3) DISM: The operation completed successfully.
4) SFCFix: Found something to do, also unsurprising since I had two bugchecks (BSOD) before starting this right after WU got to 100% on some update, ended up at recovery options, & went to safe-mode with the update presumably incomplete.
I'm guessing whatever SFCFix tries to do after it runs DISM is something that doesn't work in Safe Mode, because once that ran again.. successfully, again, SFCFix then sat, apparently doing nothing, and after waiting way longer than the estimated scan/fix time first, looking at Task Manager & Resmon, showed it using 0% CPU, the system as a whole idling at 1% CPU, & minimal disk activity.
Side note. If the tool doesn't work in Safe Mode, perhaps that should be stated, or better yet the tool could check the system isn't in Safe Mode & put up an error message if it is.
Sorry I can't give you the log from that, since none was produced. I left it sitting quite literally hours.
I did see the word error flash by, but the message was there for a split-second only, & since there's no back-scroll, I couldn't go back & look at what it said.
5) CBS.zip attached as requested, I don't envy you, looking at CBS logs is no fun, at least, not in a simple text editor.
I'll disable verifier & give SFCFix a few goes booted normally.. If it completes I'll post the output, but don't hold your breath, I've severe doubts I'll stay booted long enough for it to finish even with verifier disabled again.