Thanks for that. I will bear it in mind. With that being the case, it's a little surprising that win10 decided to install itself in the first place.

I can't give you any of that information now as the laptop is back with its owner.

Even if I had it, I wouldn't be able to tell which update caused the problems. I think it was more my use of an...

I have the iso on my hard drive if there is any way of getting the build from that.

It was originally win8 I believe so yes it was an upgrade. There were a number of partitions which I left alone,...

Just to update this, I managed to turn off updates for 35 days and it did not throw up any errors until that point. No reports of issues since so it would appear that using an older version may have...

Well your question about which version I have made me download a fresh copy. The one I had (not sure of version) was older and was labelled win 10 pro as opposed to the newer version (1703) which was...

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure which update is causing the problem. I rebooted after installing office and it said it was installing updates, then rebooted with the lovely and utterly useless...

Hello folks, as above, I have a laptop which appears to have been stuffed by an update. I have twice reinstalled win10 from usb, along with everything else and then an update has installed and sent...