Monkey's dancing -- got my W7 back and loaded and everything is running fine ... put it on a new drive, and will dump this W8 immediately ...
Did a new install on the HD - new HD and W7 ... no junk, no stealing my data, and runs very fast. Finally, got this W8 in the trash bin, at least after today. Was holding off on dumping the W8, just to make sure all was well with the W7 and data transfer ...
Gotta go eat a banana, and find that trash can for W8 -- glad some of you like it, but seems to me more don't than do ... Finally -