In my OP I mentioned I felt that I had one or more hidden processes running. When I log on the first thing I do is open Task Manager. I see two processes Winlogon.exe and consent.exe with no other info on them. Since I log on under my user account I have to click SeeProcesses From All Users and enter my Admin password. If I click on that while these two processes are showing it will not let me enter my Admin PW until they are gone. I have tried to click on Properties for consent.exe but it will not bring up a properties window for this process. Once these two processes are gone I can enter my PW and see the processes from all users. I used to get my admin PW window right away before I started having these issues back in late August or Early September. I understand getting low on RAM will slow things down, but wouldn't this be a more gradual thing rather than all of a sudden ?
I was looking at Task Manager just now and I found two instances of WUDFHost.exe, first PID 3352, Session ID 0, User Name LOCAL SERVICE, Memory 524k. Second PID 3436, Session ID 0, User Name LOCAL SERVICE, Memory 472k. The first instance when looking at Properties shows
Created Monday, October 30, 2017 4:37:36 PM
Modified Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 10:08:53 PM
Accessed Monday, October 30, 2017, 4:37:46 PM
These times are odd because I shut it down at 3:30 PM every day and unplug the router cable.
The Properties for the second instance shows the exact same times and dates. This would be three days after my MS Support supervised clean reinstall which created my Windows.old file on 10/27/17.
Is it normal to have two of the same thing running under the same User Name like this ? I understand two things using different User Names like TimK and System. What is this WUFDHost.exe and what does it do ? Why are there two of them running together ?