Windows Update 'service not running'

Hello and welcome blargwall - now as I read it you cannot "hide" the update you don't want? If you are unsure of what I mean and I don't want to sound condescending - if you download the updates and in the result if you right click that update or any update for that matter - you do not want - and choose "Hide" it will not or should not reappear again. If it does as is the case sometimes just re-hide it.

Now I would be running the sfc as is and this as well because that is what I do if my machines show any signs of running not quite as they should it -they are the very basic scans and don't take long.
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html < if necessary include the /f and /r in the command line as per Option2
this will attempt any repairs to the filing system and I usually do both in safe mode so that there is the least interference form other material on the machine.

The 'summary' was missing from the end of the SFC log - but you had 40 damaged files which SFC at least thinks it managed to repair.

The CheckSUR scan was clear.

Please run another SFC scan - does this come back as 'no integrity violations found'?? If not, please post the new CBS.log.

A number of the affected files appear to have been critical system files, so the behaviour of Windows Update may have changed - what's it like now?

Ah - I didn't spot that you ran SFC as /verifyonly!!

You MUST run it fully - or it may give erroneous results.
Please run it as /SCANNOW and post the new CBS.log file (only)

Yes I mentioned that too Noel the CheckSUR I didn't really look at it that much and I thought the chkdsk would be a helpful scan to run too.