Removal of windows bloatware.. (wanted)

[Mr Gus]

Thanks MM, I feel somewhat foolish now, internal component vs external ..should've figured that one out.

[AE-NMidlands]

Ha ha sounds like my laptop use too especially the 40 plus open browser tabs because i can never find the same thing twice!
Moxi

A techie friend of mine (when I had problems a while ago) did check that I was shutting it down fully after each session. I think it clears all sorts of accumulating cookie crap out. I use bookmarks a lot and have several dozen in about 10 categories.
(Using Firefox on a Windows 10 Dell laptop.)
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[Moxi]

Yep thats another one of my failings, leaving it on in sleep mode not the best and I should close down both for security but also to save the electrons!

Moxi