Windows pauses opening new tasks

[NormanWattenberger]

For the last few months, about every 15 minutes, Windows pauses.Symptoms:>Windows goes into a state where it takes a full minute to launch any task.>No applications can be started, including Task Manager>Creating a new browser tab pauses.>There is a wait circle when hovering mouse over the task bar or any icon.>Already invoked applications continue running, but anything that requires creation of a new task pauses for a minute.>After about a minute, everything unfreezes and all requests initiated during the pause are instantly executed.Task Manager shows:>Almost no activity

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