Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
.... One point unrelated to this. You said you're using MS Security Essentials. Bad idea because it's simply not that good. One very big reason to upgrade to Win 10 is the new Windows Defender is much better and no it can't be added to an old Win 7 system. I'm not going into all that here, for a whole variety of reasons everybody should be on Win 10. Bob

I have a lot of drives and folders marked as safe in my AntiVirus, so that there won't be unnecessary scans ... Just dump MS security essentials, get a good antvirus, free ones like AVG are even a lot better. Use Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D occasionally takes out a lot of sh*t. too. F