Windows update downloads hanging / failing

Hi. It’s been a while since I’ve downloaded updates, but today a few things were going slow so I thought it would be good to try.

CCleaner recommends several updates to Windows 10 software, as “high importance” (3 stars). When I select them, it starts the process, then hangs about 30% of the way through the progress bar. It’s now doing that for about the 5th time this evening (I’ve closed, restarted, rebooted, excluded the hanging update, in various permutations between attempts).

No error is displayed.

What should I do?

Using CCleaner Professional verson 6/36/11508 (64-bit) with current software as of last check 16 days ago per “System” in my Windows menu.

I would just do Windows Updates through Windows itself.
Does that work okay for you?