The windows update things worked for me too. I noticed other problems, like slow loading of image/video heavy internet pages like youtube, streamable or whatever. Weird.
My situation included having to restart my pc to be able to start my project at all. and even then it crashed within a minute. Starting a new project also had very slow loading (seemingly froze on the loading splash screen, but after i returned 3 hours later it had somehow continued to the next screen but then also froze)
Verifying installation did not help either.
But i did windows updates (granted there were a lot of them) and it seems fixed now.