I received a feedback request form MS yesterday, presumably because of the new install I did. It asked me if I would recommend anyone to install WIN 10 .....

I gave a decided NO and said that...

Thanks , I have done the same. Only run updates on the store under direct control and then sign on with my MS account as per the tutorial provided by Shawn. Next step is to eliminate all the Apps ...

So I took the plunge and re-installed Win10 from scratch. This time I did a custom install, on a local account only.

Late last night and this morning (SAT), the following updates failed, yet...

thank you!

I appreciate all the help and suggestions offered on this thread I think we can mark this one as "Solved" even if the solution is not a permanent one!

Thanks for this. the files you are talking about that get corrupted, are these on my machine or on the MS servers responsible for returning data to my PC? Based on the other report below, it would...

Yes that is exactly it, but how does one recover from such a situation?

The process that triggered all of this is this one


Source...

Just spent the weekend "restoring" to a previous restore point ( twice, two different restore points) and the problems remain. So what does one conclude if a restore point fails? Is it just...

I created a new account (local) and that works perfectly well. ALL the missing apps are available and work, so does the Start Menu.

Does this mean in fact that nothing is actually wrong with the...

Did all the normal stuff.

Ran sfc /verify only -- get no errors showing up.
Ran sfc /scannow - ditto no problems
Ran Dism ... scanhealth --- show nothing is wrong.

Only problem seems to be...

Unfortunately, Nothing has changed as far as restoring access to the start menu etc.

A new userclass.dat file was created (8kB) compared to the old file which is 3584 kB in size.
I saved the...

Kari,

Thank you for the help! Will keep you posted of developments. I have not reverted to a restore point, as I would rather understand what is going on before doing anything.

What I did do...

This morning ( 2016-05-12), I lost Edge while busy posting a comment on this forum, next was calculator, disappeared from my system, then Maps, and then when I tried to see what was going on, the...