> > How should I go about "disabling junk" ? >
Sadly, I didn't keep notes last time I did it. I remember disabling some useless services, removing almost every tiled app (using Powershell), using autoruns.exe <https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx> to find all the obscure stuff to disable, deleting registry run entries, and much more I can't remember now -- *Greg*