I spent more time than I wanted to trouble-shooting some recent gaming performance issues on my HP Spectre x360 that it turns out were related to installing KB4552931 from Microsoft via Windows Update.

As it turns out, if you uninstall the update, Microsoft doesn’t take the hint and will keep reinstall it over and over on you.

So, what you can do (other than disable windows update completely) is actually ‘hide’ the update from showing in the list of updates that Microsoft wants to manage.

Instructions on doing so can be found here.

Good luck! Hope this helps someone else out there…