(September 22, 2015 at 11:37 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I'd say there's an incompatible service or driver locking things up.
In safe mode, try to disable non essential services and see how you go.
I had similar issues trying to force my tv dongle driver to load...
As I said I've reverted now and everything's back to normal in Windows 7. I may try again at some point in the future but only after I've researched all of this. I was stuck on my mobile and should've gone to bed hours ago so a night of trying to figure out the problem, and on a mobile, was not appealing. It's nearly 5am and I can barely keep my eyes open so I'll be going to bed soon.