Re: >a representative sample of the last week's worth@work
'Tssk, tssk, sounds like you had a great Windows week.'
Worst it's been for about a month. I reckon an applied software update has gone south, probably only tried against a standard 'office machine' image and deemed stable before deployment across the board..
Thinks could be much worse...
s/Win7/Win8.1/
Try s/Win7/Win10/g..that's the next braindead plan (despite the writers of one of the packages we use clearly stating their software doesn't work properly if run on Win10, they've no immediate plans to release a Win10 version, and they'll not be supporting any Win10 related issues that do show up.)
Interesting times ahead...and thankfully they're SEP.