I checked for updates yesterday and Windows 10 Creators Update (1703) installed itself, taking over an hour as has been mentioned. It also wanted to update Adobe Flash Player, but got stuck trying. So I did that manually and that was fine.
Having then used 'disk clean up' to delete previous versions of Windows, I then tried another update check - and this time Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709) started installing. Which took over 2 hours! Then another disk clean up session to delete 1703 and recover disk space on my mini-laptop.
A few extra icons appeared in the system tray, all of which I deleted although it took me a while to fins how to delete the keyboard language description 'ENG'....
No doubt there are some new toys, such as that Cortana thing, which I'll never use, but hopefully there won't be any nasty surprises!
Last edited by BEagle; 5th November 2017 at 08:48.