Since last Windows Update "task host window is stopping background tasks windows 10" on 4 machines

Innovative and informative 🏆, one step closer to a true solution, I wonder what task is having these time issues and why

I wonder if there is a way to determine which task is blocking the proper shutdown of taskhost.

For me, it only says "Task Host is shutting down background tasks" but does not indicate which task it means.

I have seen screenshots from other user where it specifies the blocking task on the shutdown/logout screen. Is this some special option to enable first, since it would help tremendously to determine the broken taskhost task preventing shutdown.

When I look at taskhost instances with process explorer, I see 3 in total. one has working set of ~800mb and running no tasks. Killing this instance makes the PC shutdown normally sometimes. But not always.

. . . . . and in yet another followup to previous posts of mine, with an issue today of disappearing system tray icons, this issue is back 'again'.

same issue here, Microsoft please properly fix this. it occurred somewhere in July/August, at least here I can finally pin down the cause the of the problem. It was one of the mentioned updates.

An update to my earlier posts . . . .

As of my last action a while back of deleting all updates to Win 10 since July and simply letting the PC go through the update process again, no issues with this goddamned problem.