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Thanks for the replies. margrave55, Yes. I'm obsessed with stopping the things I don't need or use. It makes the things I do use work better. Since I started this crusade I've improved my performance considerably, and that's my goal, to have the OS as freed up as possible.
MeAndMyComputer, I did get the computer about a week ago and did a full reinstall of the OS (the longer process). It is the Asus machine you show. ET Pro is not running in the background, startups are at a minimum, OneDrive is already disabled, windows defender(?) I think is the security package, I uninstalled that McAfee bundled program immediately.
Thank you eLPuSHeR for the RAM explanation.
Thanks Eagle51 for that PowerRun information. I will give that a try.