Reboot a few more times and see if those 3 Windows Updates make it in. Sometimes a few reboots are needed.
If no success on installing the Windows Updates, I'll have to send you to the Windows Updates forum here. I know they now have more staff, so you should get a pretty quick turn-around.
It was my pleasure to investigate the Speccy error message. It was rather intriguing as well.
I'm not sure what to tell you to look for at the end of Driver Verifier because it will most likely continue in perpetuity - continuing to check the same drivers over and over.
Just let it run for at least 24 hours minimum. Turn sleep OFF if need be.
Zone Alarm and the other 3rd party Internet Security Suites (like Norton, McAfee, KIS, COMODO, etc...) have caused problems in Windows systems ever since Vista when the user and admin tokens changed. I run ESET NOD32 antivirus + Windows Firewall and have never had a security issue. The Windows Firewall really is a good firewall.
Regards. . .
John
EDIT: glad to hear that the CPU tests passed. My guess is that Zone Alarm may have caused that BSOD as well.
