Tested the WIFI card on another laptop - working fine. I also tested the WIFI card from the other laptop in the affected win 10 laptop. Same issue - added drivers etc from intel site.
Old machine did not have hyper-v, vmware or Vbox installed. I have tested with the old wifi card and the new one - getting the same result I have also tried updating all the chipset drivers I'll now test the wifi card in another laptop
I have upgraded to windows 10 this week - all went fine with the upgrade except that the wifi on my laptop stopped working. I upgraded the drivers - no luck as the wifi was a little flaky anyway I upgraded the card to I have upgraded to windows 10 this week - all went fine with the upgrade...