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my pc has updated to (1703) windows 10, I am running Office 2016.
How do I manage outlook PROFILES, without acces to the Mail (outlook 2016) applet that used to be available via the now defunct Contrlo panel
 

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Hello and welcome to the forum.
How do I manage outlook PROFILES, without acces to the Mail (outlook 2016) applet that used to be available via the now defunct Contrlo panel
The Control Panel is still available.
Simply click the Start Button and start typing Control Panel and select it from the list

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Thanks for the reply, but my control panel wont stay open since the update. clicking on the Desktop app opens control panel briefly then returns to the desktop
 

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Sounds like you may have some additional problems.
Try the native System File Checker and see if that tells you anything.
Open an elevated command prompt and in the command prompt window type
sfc /scannow
hit enter
let it run and see what happens

You might want to try clean booting your system as described here
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135

Easily done, easily undone.
Basically you're just disabling all the Startup Items and All non-Microsoft services.
Be sure to check the box to hide Microsoft Services, as you don't want to accidentally disable any of those.

Create a new user profile to determine if the problem is unique to your profile or global across all profiles.
Go to
C:\Windows\System32
Find
Cmd.exe (if you are hiding file extensions then it will only say "Cmd")
Right click it and choose run as administrator
At the admin command prompt type
net user JohnSmith /add
hit enter
then type
net localgroup administrators JohnSmith /add
hit enter
type
exit
hit enter
Restart and log in as JohnSmith

Failing the above you might want to try performing an in-place upgrade repair. That is to say...... upgrade it again, overtop of itself from within your current install, just double click setup.exe in the installation media. Just be sure to check the little box to get updates as part of the upgrade process.
That will generally keep all your programs, data, drivers and such safe, but.....
I would still create a disk image before going forward.

Installation media can be obtained here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
If you already have the ISO you can simply mount it from within Windows 10 and run setup.exe from there.

Neosmart has a pretty good article on it here https://neosmart.net/wiki/windows-10-repair-installation/
You can skip the first couple paragraphs where they are promoting their recovery CDs and drill down to the meat of the article below.
 
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Since my second post, I have been Browsing the inernet about similar problems. Found the same problem from someone else on a Windows 8.1 update where the update installed the wrong sound card driver. Have downloaded the correct driver for Windows 7 and it has fixed my control panel problem
 

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Wow..... thanks for the follow-up. I don't think I would have ever guessed that a sound card drive would produce the symptoms you describe.
I would think that if you had to go back to a Windows 7 driver, you might expect some further problems from Windows 10 battling to upgrade that driver.
IF so..... you might want to have a read here
https://www.windows10forums.com/art...-from-downloading-hardware-driver-updates.54/
 
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More info now..
found the prevous ALPs sound driver from Windows 10 (1607) in the windows.old directory and have reinstalled it in (1703) no Problems
 

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