Bewilderingly, it again spent several hours doing one file. 0 out of 0 showing until it said reboot.
Almost right away, it invited me to download updates. Aaaaaaagh!
Again, the relevance to this thread. Is this bizarre behaviour due to running Never 10? It seems like some grotesque punishment for my disobedience.
I started the third update procedure. But this time a ray of hope. A normal green barometer and reported progress. Soon it was done and unlike last time, seems to be functioning at a reasonable speed.
Can I ask, all this detritus that's left behind - is it, A/ Normal and B/Is one expected to clean it up or would the system have done so had I not been so quick with Ccleaner?
I'm not going to do anything with it until I know more technical details.
Ccleaner. Has opinion changed about this utility? I do stress I only use it for unwanted things - mostly .tmp files and profiles. I don't know enough to let it get to the registry. It also has a very good duplicates sort.