Understood Mystere. But now I can click on the Outlook logo pinned to the taskbar and get taken directly to my Hotmail inbox. I could not do that before..

Well I had given up but the post from Cliff S was too tempting.
So I followed his advice to use IE and I almost made it but got Bing logo on taskbar which when expanded took me to OUTLOOK login...

But in spite of repeating every suggestion very carefully 3 times I have not succeeded in pinning HOTMAIL to the taskbar.
Closest was open Hotmail (from favourites) got to three dots ,pin link to...

Using Edge I seem to be able to pin any program that I want to the taskbar except Hotmail. I am presently holding Hotmail in Favourites and while that works fine its just not cricket. !!! I want...

Cannot find any reference to this little problem which I find annoying .

Thanks for your detailed research Nighthawk. . But this time I downloaded a fresh copy of the install data to my USB stick .Then did a full udpdate of win10. And it showed Version 1511 build...

Thanks again. I have re-updated the second machine (my wifes' as I did not want to upset MY pc) All went well to completion and reported build 10.0.10240 !!!!. the original level. So back to the...

Thanks for your advice Nighthawk.. You have given me quite a lot to understand and action. I will report back asap. Adios TJA

I have two eMachines e528 laptops with identical software and hardware setups. Both have performed reliably for 5 years.
Win 10 installed in both with 10.0.10240 build 10240 in October 2015. ...

Thanks Edwin. Just as well I didn't zap them. But I will leave them visible as I don't like anything hidden even though they may be a potential problem.

Since using Win10 I have accumulated many NTUSER.DAT and BLF File files in my USER file. . Is this normal.
2. Can I delete them without causing any problems
3. Is there a way to prevent them...