I went to disc management, and found to my dismay that it refuses to change the system/boot drive letter. Obvious why I suppose. Guess it's a re-install.
Talked to my pal in UK today, and he uses Pro, but is intrigued by my description of this copy. He is however, still on SP2. He's going to have a look at SP3
The speed might be due to not having much tat loading...indeed, it was my intention to improve my system by a detailed clear out, but that got away to a bad start. I lost the use of my scroll wheel, where everything else was fine. Odd that, didn't think it would be so isolated as to be pared away from the mouse in general by one small file.
I know the Barracuda is faster, but still there are quite a few things loading on startup, and I don't think the Home edition was ever remotely like this.