Windows Modules Installer Worker causes memory hog

To turn it off right click, properties, and there's a tab in which I think it says "automatic" or "manually", just click it and press disable and it will disable. I hope this helps :D

its not a corrupt user account, that's just a BS red herring they throw out there.

like i said, just do a google search, this is WIDESPREAD.  I understand that they want to eliminate cases where it is corruption or unique to the user, but this all points to bad code, not something else.

I don't use my laptop for ANYTHING other than streaming video to my TV, that's it, and this happens to me.  whats so annoying is that the issue can be intermittent, so its not all the time, but its enough of the time, and whats worse is that even when u manually end the task, it can start up again on its own.  on a low powered laptop, that can ruin a viewing exp.

how can a user account, made online for Hotmail, xbox, ect, be corrupt, I googled this issue found all of this, and none of it is helping. cannot even restart the problem because it wont let it. can I get rid of 8.1 without having any more problems, or will I be hounded for updates all the time. Ive always been anti-apple due to pricing, but maybe there is something behind having something that doesn't hog all your resources all the time.

The issue might be due to corrupted user account. As a work around, I would suggest you to create a new user account and check the issues status in the new user account. This helps us to diagnose the issue.

Create a user account.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-8

Windows Modules Installer Worker is a CPU and memory hog, and it never quits!

this was not a problem when I first got this laptop.  after one of the windows updates, it is a problem.

this is nonsense.  why in gods name can't MS figure out how to do things properly?

this has been going on FOR YEARS.  just look at a google search of the service name.

FIX IT ALREADY!