Holy quadruple posting batman!
PC home built, BIOS up to date, though a few years old (2012).
Updated the SSD FW to the latest as part of the process.
McAffee is a POS but its free with BT
Hence the Malwarebytes as a back up...
F-Secure, there is a blast from the past, had that on a machine years ago (probably based on your advise!
) but it was the opposite extreme, it uberchecked everything so much the machine ground to a halt!
Previous PSTs were individuals per email and were in the Apps local folder since I had upgraded from 2000 rather than the Docs folder that 2013 defaults too, but they disappeared during the reset, so either the "Keep my files" option failed, or it was a nasty little fecking virus that had already wiped them...
I did have some old archives of important stuff and our current main emails are all on IMAP anyway so nothing actually lost, just a pain to set up again!
Yes Sir, you are so right about not being able to directly install W10 without a W7 licence active... took me a while to figure that one.
Along with the fact that you cant restore a W7 image from a W10 media disc...
Also took a while to remember how to tell the PC about a drive that DOS could see but forwhatever reason Windows hadnt asigned it a Drive letter...
Finally got all running smoothly in W7 mode so I am going to image this then try to go back to W10 over the weekend.
Agree re the enhanced Task Manager, if you can open it!
Couldnt even CTRL SHIFT ESC
Cheers!!