I had assumed since automatic updates were turned on that everything would be up to date but indeed the network card driver was old so I have updated it now. I will see over the next couple of days whether that fixes the problem.

Thanks

>Do you have an updated device driver for Windows 10? It could be an older driver. It could also be a current driver that's not allowing the value to be changed rather than Windows.
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>>I do not have any nonexistent entries in the set path list and all the work is only local workstation. Secondly I had already used the device manager to uncheck the box that allows the computer turn off the device. Unfortunately the problem must be somewhere else.
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>>Thanks
>>Simon