Sorry, I only caught your response after I posted the update post. Regarding the startup services, I recognised one as AVG antivirus and the other as ATI CCC, the third was Asus "Tweak It" and the fourth was an indecipherable string name linked to "Apple". Regarding AVG I simply got rid of it...
Ok, I have found many examples of this but every solution I have read doesn't work for me, I'll start at the top in what steps I have taken to the current situation. On installing Windows 7 it worked flawlessly, proceeded to install apps etc, that evening I turned off. On login the next day no...