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

This is likely a highly accurate assessment, Christopher.

Microsoft moderators and support team members - Please escalate this request appropriately. Even though this is not a severity one defect, enough people have reported this issue, and it has potential for exploitation. The recommended solutions so far are not sustainable and do not resolve the core issue. Please do escalate this to the appropriate product management so that it can be triaged, backlogged, and planned for an appropriate sprint by the appropriate team(s).

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I have found that if I use the the shutdown command in the cmd window as admin with a time option I don't have the host task window issue. There seems to be a timing issue of some sort. I have been using

shutdown /s /t 15

(wait 15 seconds before shutting down after the shutdown process has begun)

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.

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.

the same problem, it even happens with a newly installed machine and updated version of win windows win10 21h2