Wow, that must've taken an eternity. I was specifically trying to avoid indiscriminately uninstalling things and kept Google searching how to find various errors and sources. For anyone else that...

This is on a fresh Windows 10 install, using a 60 GB SSD and a pair of 1 TB HDD's. No folders were moved off the SSD (C:\) outside of what Windows supports. (That is, I moved all user folders to the...