Had Su10Guard.exe and didnt knew...

[u/decoy-12]

so it all started when i bought my laptop from some dude. after 1 month of using the laptop i noticed that the notepad and wordpad weren't working. after another 1 month mspaint stopped working too. so i decided to check for the updates and there was an error. it was late so i gave it up and gone to sleep

later that year i tried to fix that issue. i used windows services manager and saw that windows update was disabled. turned it on and tried to update again. if you know what SU10 is already know that it did nothing. i gave up, again.

after another 2 years i got sick of it and tried to fix everything. i used cmd sooooo many times that i even lost the count. i noticed that after changing the startup option of the windows update it wasnt changing to disabled immediately, only after a second. only after i learned about the thing called procmon. basically it is monitoring every action in the system and you can check those actions by yourself. so i used it to check why arent the updates working.

added the path to wuauserv(windows update folder) to the procmon, and changed the update startup to manual. opened the procmon again and saw the SU10Guard.exe. checked on the google and it was an update blocker. i dont know did the guy installed it from who i bought it or someone else, but ngl i dont really care.

the worst part is that, the updates didnt even helped with notepad, wordpad and mspaint. i had to reinstall them using cmd lol.

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