Happening to me too, on a new Intel NUC Kit D54250WYK with Windows 7 and the latest IE and Chrome browsers. http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect
From Internet Explorer v11, Click “Check your system for updates” button:
Internet Explorer has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
From Chrome v32, Click “Check your system for updates” button, hangs on:
Analyzing computer...