1st of all what are all these blank gear icons(Snippit Screen Capture 01 & 02)?? It looks to me "services DCOM: Server process launcher" & "Windows Explorer" are the 2 big users of the CPU's time

I know my CPU is now being taxed about 30% higher than normal & according to "CPU Temp" about 30% warmer than normal.
How come

Sooo !! your telling me this is all oki doke!!?? if so,,, is there a way to disable some service(s) or any other way to take down or cripple the creators update? I could give a hoot less about this...

After creators update installed I have gotten pages Windows services running. My machine is running at about 50% CPU. At idle it's usually around 15 to 2%. I've never seen so many services running at...

IF your comfortable with a little registry hacking, try option 3 in this link....
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/65828-drive-icon-change.html

It worked for me

How do you change drive icons in Win 10 Home?

I tried resolution in Seven Forums, but that didn't work for Win 10 Home.

Any help out there? Thanks, Jim

Thanks for the MM. I was able to solve the issue by restoring an image copy backup to 1 of those times when office did install correctly.

Ans. 1 Logged in as my Admin account.
Ans. 2 Installing from an extracted ISO file on my HDD
Ans. 3. Very shortly after I execute the Startup.Exe
Ans. 4. No error code displays. Just says...

while trying to install ms Office 2007 pro in win 10 v1607(anniversary edition) I get a message that simply says the installation encountered an error. Any one out y ideas?

Thanks, jim