Windows 8.1 : Task Host is Stopping Background Tasks

For the past couple of days when I would shut down my windows 8.1 machine I would notice that the process would pause because "task host is busy stopping background processes". I'm would then have to kill it before it would go on to shut down .

Checking around the start up lists didn't bring anything and my av scanners had nothing to report. Searching was also not that helpful and now I couldn't even update the machine to the next version.

Having tried everything I figured why not turn off the last thing that was turned on which was sky drive sync and with that the problem went away . Turns out the sync was doing something even blocking the windows update manager .

Hopefully this helps others facing the same problem

Guess Who's Back, Back Again

People  can put a positive spin on the ad below all they want but its clear that HP feels that by advertising machines with Windows 7 they can sell some PCs out there. Windows 8 is turning out to be to the new Vista and Microsoft really needs to figure out how they can move forward quickly to get people warmed up for the next 7 or XP.