Ahhh yes, actually you bring up two items I am unsure of with W7P... mainly scandisk/defrag and "Is the Windows Speed Index (or any other benchmark) according to expectations, and which components do deviate too much?" How do I test and determine how much is too much on this one? If it were XP Pro, I would know. But doing a seletive start up on W7P is an unknown as to what needs to be running and what doesn't.

I have and use CCleaner, and I also recently started using IOBit Advanced System Care 5... maybe that is something I need to remove. I also have always used MalwareBytes, but was reccomended to use the IOBit Malware Remover... another unknown.

Plus the real, weird thing, loading files when you open a HD... It takes a long time, there is a green shaded progress bar in the drive location bar at the top of the 'page'... plus it has "lost" several files of mine. At first I thought maybe a virus.... but nothing comes up in any of my scanning software.

Also I did reset my VM to the reccomended setting of 24549 from the original setting of 16366. I have just done this and need to reboot. But I wasn't sure on page filing settings.

ThanX a Bunch for this help... after 9+ years in XP Pro... I am really at a loss as I have only ever used one other OS and that was Win 98! So I never got my feet wet in even Vista before W7P!!!

Ariana

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