Thanks for that information. It's grimly comforting to know I'm not the only one. I too am considering going back to W7--but the time involvled gives me a headache.
I did a system restore via shift...

I did a clean install of w10 from w7 a couple of months ago and everything has been running fine until about a week ago since when I've not been able open the start menue. Reading through other posts...

[QUOTE=pixflix;416344]a few days ago I got BSOD with the above message, it shut down and restarted but now cant access start menue.
recently did a DISM cleanup-image/ restart health and it...

a few days ago I got BSOD with the above message, it shut down and restarted but now cant access start menue.
recently did a DISM cleanup-image/ restart health and it "completed successfully"....

Ok, many thanks, much appreciate,

thanks you--so are you saying the installation procedure will automatically recognize and install 64bit or do I have to request it?

Thanks for your welcome and for the answers--but can I clarify, please? I applied for W10 before upgrading my machine to 64bit W7 and presumably my system was registered as 32bit with MS and a W10 32...

I registered for W10 upgrade before doing a clean install of Windows 7 64 bit from a 32 bit version. Now that I have 64 bit windows 7 I'm worried that the version of W10 will be 32bit. Is there any...