Very appreciative of your thoughts. I'm an admin on windows. Somehow I'm back in business after several reboots and having to hard boot. I have never had a wifi issue that had the reactivate manual/1 hr/etc. Then manual did not work or do anything. System froze up several times. I have done absolutely nothing to my laptop except have MS force an update yesterday that I can't delete. I'm not that au fait with registry stuff but I figure I can work stuff out if I have instructions :)
The whole not being able to uninstall updates that I specifically paused is worrying. I understand if it's serious security issues but I dunno what MS are thinking with some of this stuff. I don't want to use edge. Don't keep putting it on my task bar. I really really don't want cortana so let people get rid of it. When will they give up?!