I spent many hours with MS "support" on the matter and they have offered no solutions save for the nuclear option (reformat). Anyone have any other ideas?

I have been attempting to upgrade windows 10 pro, from version 10240 to version 1607 (anniversary update). I have tried both the Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant and the media creation tool (ISO). I get...

ICIT2LOL - I tired that and everything came back fine. I did however, decide to leave the task manager open at all times so I could see if there was something amiss when the behavior took place....

Hey all - After about 15-20 minutes of use my computer starts acting strangely. The Start Menu, Task Manager, and Programs wont launch, nothing works. If I have something open (Game/Browser/Whatever)...

Thanks for all the input but nothing has worked. I even scanned the whole drive with Recuva but didn't find anything. Strange, as I thought I would at least find a trace. Unless anyone else has a...

Thanks for the quick reply Mr. Geek. I double checked and the public desktop is empty and I logged into my MS account/Admin account each time. Actually it's the only user on the PC. Doing searches...

OK, so something strange happened. I popped my laptop open and windows 10 had been upgraded (from previous version of windows 10). I put in my PIN and the desktop loaded, only it was the default...