Okay starting from the bottom of this thing. I did a custom install of 7 and used all the drivers for the 64bit version of this OS. Fresh downloads also (Which took me an age but hey-ho). Checkdisk didn't flag up anything as it did this when i installed the OS. On the first boot it prompted me to run it and there were no apparent bad sectors. (The HDD is only a year old and it's kept at 15C at all times). Memtest i can't figure out for the life of me, i'll get back to you on that one when i can find a blank DVD going around. Actually i think i could use a USB for this, though i've had problems booting from a USB in the past.
Closing svchost solves the issue for like 10 minutes before it restarts whatever it is within it. However something weird happens when i do that, various Windows Update icons appear in the task bar along with that 'Upgrade to Windows 10' thingy. I find that somewhat unusual.
