I Told you so:)

Okay, Bagginsbill
I've followed your instructions to the letter, and only loaded the P7 runtime, as that's the only other runtime I've ever had.
And now we are back at square one, because after 8 minutes of indexing the P7 runtime (yes it took a full 8 minutes just to index the characters folder) it is now firmly stuck a third of the way through the poses folder. I waited 10 mintes to see if the indexing would continue, which it didn't, so I closed P8. Note, the indexing was extremely slow.

Now my computer access to the start button menus is extremely slow again, more blank white menu windows, and it takes 20 seconds to access either the WinMail or Firefox windows, let alone link to the internet, which takes another several seconds. It's like wading through mud! And in case it may help, Internet Explorer is no faster at accessing the internet either.

No error messages have come up. The only message to appear was the notification that there is a P8 update available for download, which will be the Hotfix patch. And last time I installed that patch it made no difference either.

I quote -
"In the end, I believe we're going to find nothing at all. I think in the past you had A) borked OS, then later B) borked P8 install."

Well something's not right.