if you are seeing svchost running between 25% and 50% or more steadily, then if you stop the windows update service and the % goes to 0, then you have a windows update issue
Here is a link to Microsoft FIxit
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058
Here is a batch file to reset
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Dos-Command-Line-Batch-to-fb07b159