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The link so kindly afforded (while I failed to scroll it’s entirety past ‘moderator names’) does lists some instructions for MBAM, etc.

I ran MBAM again as instructed here (indeed I’d overlooked it’s setting for rootkits).

However it’s subsequent scan came up clean.

Indications I have malware are; Opening a blank Word doc, takes nearly 30 seconds, or at least 15 secs, Windows Media Center freezes for several minutes, especially if I refuse to use it in full screen and either way, it freezes for minutes when trying to say, stop a recording and trying to view the tv guide, forcing me to use task master to end the program.

Again other concerns lending to malware, are as mentioned, many-most opened folders balk at allowing me to cursor and click file>open, sometimes I’m forced to double click the highlighted file instead.

Most a nuisance, but I don’t think it’s simply MS ‘bug’ or my OEM mouse software, or even my settings for text size and coloring of opened windows, their fonts, pages or text coloring.

Although therein, I’ve yet to crack the nut for why my preferred scheme often prevents me from seeing many website’s search and/or dialog boxes. So I’ve relented to when befuddled, selecting “All” such that otherwise invisible boxes are made detectable.

Forgive that likely last ‘muddling’ of the real issues of sluggishness and freezes in certain app’s.

Best regards as always.