This "fix" doesn't work on Windows 8.1. I've also been told by Microsoft support to go into:
Control Panel/System/Windows Update/ and select the update in question and pretend I'm going to Install it. But, instead I should right click and select "Hide Update". That's great and it looks like it's going to work. As soon as you get out of that screen
and come back in, the update is there and checked again.