Next exciting episoide is to reduce booting time

Was 35 seconds as timed by Glary Utilities by Glarysoft  (freeware) - mentioned this in case any viewers want to standardise results on theirs

https://www.glarysoft.com/

I remember once disconnecting the signal cable from the ssd , consult bios setup, afterwards wondered why it would not boot , reconnected and found the boot times was significantly less, like half - i surmised that without any background processes running the onboard maintenance firmware was free to quickly do it's thing.

So I tried to repeat this - but did not work consistently , just down by about 15% then creeping back up ( 28 - 30 seconds)

( also can not say what effect this has if any on the ssd - i do not advocate this process, and also may only work on the model I was using at the time))

So one thing lead to another and I carefully checked boot-time processes and found my security was hogging resources for a few minutes in the backgound - which would be fine in a late release computer but not for mine

So I replaced that with a lower resource usage security ( which caught a few viruses by surprise - a common event ) and I removed a few unwanted apps etc

result was 16 - 24 second booting but i must have stirred up something destructive , possible zombie controls which defaulted to an unpleasant " ground hog day" event , every time reboot , restores to the same point using a temp profile ( which I had never added)

This maybe a glitch or nanny-state malware - but is totally disturbing , and no , running restore points did not help and i tried a popular registry fix as well.

so having saved all valued files to an external hdd , using my trusty Knoppix live operating system ( runs from ram memory)

I shall clean reinstall

such is computer ownership of the inept !  but 16 seconds to boot up with security etc is not to bad .