Thanks Freebooter, but as I said in my post, it is not currently possible to download an Insider Programme ISO from Microsoft, so I cannot do a repair. But thanks anyway!

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Hey, thank you so much for your help. It really is much appreciated. I shall try your solution sometime today.

Thanks again!

Andy.

Hi all,

My PC running Windows 10 Home is suffering some big problems. Several services have their options greyed out and cannot be started. My main concern is the Windows Update Service. The...

Thanks Dalchina,

I shall have a go and see what happens!

Andy.

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Well that was a waste of time. When trying to download the ISO, I got an error. Contacted a guy at MS...

Thanks Dalchina.

I shall try the ISO you linked to. If I am not given the option to retain my files, what does happen about OneDrive files?

Much appreciated!

I am really hoping this solves...

Hi Dalchina, many thanks for your reply.

Yes, I'm trying to do an in-place repair install. And yes, it's an insider build. I didn't realise that the MCT only installs official builds, although...

Hi all,

After several months trying to cure a problem with updating Windows 10, and failing, I have decided to bite the bullet and rebuild Windows using the Media Creation Tool. For some reason...

I'm glad it's not just me then. The issue has just survived another update. It's still giving the same error.

Many thanks, but the issue has survived the last three updates, so I'm not optimistic......

Hi all,

Windows 10 on a PC, Build 19018.

When I click the Cortana button, I get a message saying "Cortana is not available in United Kingdom English at this time".

Reinstalled Cortana. No...

Hi all,

I'm getting the above notification frequently on my PC. It's really annoying me. Windows 10 Update assistant runs perfectly when I run it from the Start menu, so what on earth is this...

Hi Samuria,

Many thanks for your reply! It is much appreciated.

Here are the contents of my hosts file - strangely, it looks empty.

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.## This is a...

Hi all,

Well this is a strange one. I was wondering why my Windows 10 was not updating - it hasn't been, for a few months - and why Cortana was insisting I was offline, when I am not, when I...

Hi dalchina,

I don't mind unannounced changes......as long as the change works! Thanks so much for your help...let's see what happens (as long as it's not an unannounced fix to an unannounced...

...anyway, getting back to my question...Dalchina....thanks mate. I'm glad I am not the only one with the problem, and I shall indeed try asking for the first, second etc. I'm surprised that MS have...

Thanks for your reply! Yes, I said "One"....and it opens OneNote!!! :)

Hi all,

Since the Creator's Update, Cortana has been behaving strangely on my machine. Specifically, when asking Cortana to launch programs, and even more specifically when there are several...

It sounds very much like the same problem.

Anyway, I have now resolved the problem. I used the EasyRE Windows repair utilty (which for a limited time is FREE):

Easy Recovery Essentials |...

Helps ;).

Many thanks for all your help Slartybart. I shall try as you suggest. It now looks like I have a number of different options to try, so I shall, and report back.

Much appreciated
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Ok, having done some reading it appears that there are a *lot* of people who've had exactly the same problem, on a wide variety of hardware platforms - everything from Surface to laptops to desktops....

Many thanks Baru. You are very kind. I shall try that. I will let you know!

Regards,

Andy.

Thanks very much for this. At least this gives me some idea of a way forward. I'm glad to know I'm not the only person with this problem! (Although, of course, I wish nobody had it.)

The problem...

Thanks...but I can't. That's the problem.

Thanks for this. No, the only other Windows disk I have is my ancient Win 2000 CD. But I presume the disk is not locked, because Win 10 is still trying to boot from it (and even attempting to start...

I would quite happily post exact data about the machine but the problem is that, being unable to start the machine, I cannot get more info at the moment, nor try any repairs, including CHKDSK!
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