It'll be a while before I get the chance to use anything on this machine. They're taking the opportunity to remodel the office it's in, and I'm supposed to be 'shielding' and furloughed.
I'll tag...

Just finished!

Duh - there was no cursor bar, so I didn't think to scroll down the list :banghead:

Downloading 1607 now :)

I couldn't when I tried last night??

I get your reasoning, and the methodology.
I'll have to look into it, as it turns out that the oldest Win10 build I can download currently is 1809 🙄😕

Yeah - that's my fall-back option (of last resort!) :D

I'm pretty convinced that it's either a driver incompatibility, or something to do with the partitioning - I'll have to remote into it and...

Funnily enough - I started downloading that earlier (just after I posted last time) - but I don't know if it's going to help, as I'd probably have to use a crack for it to activate (unless I can...

Thanks for the quick come-back!
Yes, I tried pretty much everything in your suggestion list - but I may not have tried the full 'clean-boot' scenario.

Certainly, the machine is only using...

HI GUYS! ( Long time no speak! :-) )
I spent a LOOONG day at work some time ago trying to upgrade a Win 7 Pro machine (Lenovo desktop).
The machine was delivered with the standard downgradable...

My 'Hey Cortana' was apparently already switched off. Since I don't use an MS a count to log in, I never bothered to check.

They both use Windows Search :)

Can't see why it should,?

I know it's very late to the party.... but I just thought I'd say that I found a quickway to get Search working again, assuming that you can't even search anything from File Explorer because it won't...

Duh - you have to scroll down the menu... :o
Then it works!!

Thanks hugely - this has been annoying me for days!

It seems that MS have enabled desktop emulation in Win10 Mobiles - but neglected to tell anyone how the heck to flip the switch either way.

Would some kind person please enlighten me?

Phone is...

That sort of thing implies that there's a possible problem with the BIOS - try resetting it to defaults

SOunds like maybe a driver problem - try booting to Safe mode, then checking Device Manage.

SFC found and fixed 4 problems.
As far as I can tell you appear to have used incorrect syntax in the DISM command (the wrong drive letter).
Beyond that I have no real ideas :(

Sorry - can't help you here :( My knowledge of Windows 10 is strictly 'beginner' class!

Drat!
I'll keep hunting...

I may have found the trigger....
Open an Elevated Command Prompt, and run the following commands...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
...

It should in theory fill up - perhaps the setting for the number of entries is wrong? (not sure where that is, though :( )

Just in case it's something more try this...

Open an Elevated Command...

Sounds like a corrupted registry key to me -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

I'd delete the full content of the key (but not the key itself) just...

Problem solved - it was the dregs of the pre-installed McAfee!!

Ran MCPR and everything worked fine.

64GB USB (NTFS) thumbdrive - worked fine until I stuck it in a 'new' Win10 machine - the drive then came up as uninitialized :(
Thought I must have removed it from the last machine without ejecting...