OK - solved it.....somehow it decided to go into tablet mode....WTF! All that and just needed to go to action centre and turn that off!!! Fixed now, but am still going to do disk image nonetheless -...

So I tried something else....I tried creating a fake user account and signed out as me as administrator and signed in as guest and windows works fine there! So now I know the hardware is...

Hey - so I did the usb repair install and still doing the same thing....

Just checking I'm doing this right....I am creating a USB with media creation tool having said it is for 'an installation on anoither computer.' Then start at step 5 of this:
Repair Install Windows...

Cool - thanks, yes just getting the usb prepared, fingers crossed! Do I need to disable secure boot as these instructions say...

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade - Windows 10...

Hey,

here is the checkdisk event log...hasn't fixed problem:

Checking file system on C:The type of the file system is NTFS.A disk check has been scheduled.Windows will now check the disk. ...

Hey - Thanks again....looks like I've been putting too much faith in the native restore functions!

Will try your fixes and if that doesn't will roll back to w7 I think.

Cheers!

Hi Dalchina,
Thanks very much for the comprehensive reply - I'll give that a go after work. Any ideas what may have caused it? And in your opinion best sticking to w10 or rolling back to w7 - I...

Hello,

My partner was mass deleting emails from her aol account on chrome when the system decided to do the following:
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Now the taskbar is non existent, the start button does not work,...