Ah ha ha...substantial progress is being made.
Vast majority of the little buggers have been wiped out - with the help of msconfig and some violence with dozens of little tick marks (killed my "hot keys" though, on the keyboard [I'll figure that later]).
Next topic...passwords.
Whenever I turn on this new machine, it boots, then runs the virus de-bug thingie...then asks me for my password.
Tiresome. This didn't happen on my other machine...so I'm assuming there is a switch somewhere....???????
(I do not care who [in this house] can access any programme that may be loaded).
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Animals...it's their World too!!