Bummer - both my PC and laptop seem to be fully operational after the latest updates....both devices are HP.
It is working now. The primary problem was that I had a couple of old ISO files with malware in files stored in them. Either Windows defender was updated and works a little differently now or the definition update just added the malware. Defender apparently can identify the malware in an ISO but is apparently unable to delete it. So it went into a loop and sucked up all of my hard drive’s bandwidth. Windows would not just let me delete the files because they were being “used” by another process, Windows Defender. I had to do a restart to get to a command prompt before windows had a chance to choke on them. Once I deleted the two ISO files everything started working again.
Our newish laptops are both HPs as well purchased from Costco.