Now that everything is running fine I would delete the restore points and manually create a new one - the older ones will have the malware in them that you have previously cleaned out and this is a standard practice after disinfection.
I also create regular system images onto an external HDD that I can restore from should something nasty happen and this is the best counter to any infection by Ransomware - saves you having to shell out Bitcoins to have your files decrypted.
One disadvantage about using an external HDD for these images though, is that the new one overwrites the existing one so you need to be sure that all is okay before creating the new one.
I normally run either a chkdsk or sfc /scannow, CCleaner for clearing the cache then a defrag (don't have a SSD fitted) before creating the image.
The free version CCleaner is a handy tool to have installed. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
While it has one of the more intelligent Registry cleaners, leave that and the Removing Duplicate File options alone - although you could use the option to find them if need be.
https://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner
http://www.howtogeek.com/113382/how-to-use-ccleaner-like-a-pro-9-tips-tricks/
There's one thing that you could help me with and that is using multiple quotes in a reply - never have managed to get the hang of that
I got the CCleaner. Yeah, I kind of like it, it seems to work quicker than the Disk Cleanup utility provided by Microsoft, but do you happen to know if it;s performing as well and as thorough?
I'm making a .jpg of these instructions and tips for my Toolkit folder, and I'm looking into exactly how to do the system image so good timing bringing it up.
About the multiple quotes.
I'm going to use variation brackets {...} instead of the regular brackets [...] so it doesn't actually perform the quote function while I'm explaining it, since then the commands disappear leaving only the text between them.
But that's the key to understanding/remembering how they work, there are the two commands in brackets that act like bookends so to speak, and all of the text that is placed between them is what gets quoted.
The actual function used to quote text on the forum is this:
{quote} "text to be quoted goes here" {/quote}
All text placed between the two quoting brackets is what ends up being quoted, and as you know, what you write after/outside of the end quoting brackets ends up appearing as your own text when you post.
To create a second quotation in the same post it's just the same process repeated with another set of quoting bracketed placed somewhere in the reply field after your own text.
{quote} "text to be quoted goes here" {/quote}
YOUR TEXT, IMAGE, WHATEVER = HERE . . . . .
{quote} "2nd text to be quoted goes here" {/quote}
ETC, ETC,
The difference is when you hit the "Quote" button on someone's post it generates the information about the post you're replying to and quoting from by having that information contained within the 1st set of brackets - Name, Topic#, Message#, and Date, which gets written at the top of the quotation when you post. So it looks like this instead:
{quote author=Boggin link=topic=2619.msg17551#msg17551 date=1417624347}
"text to be quoted goes here"
{/quote}
Nothing changes with the characters used for the end brackets "{/quote}", it stays the same either way - and of course I'm using dummy brackets instead of the regular ones like I said at the beginning, but you just repeat the process as many times as needed, with or without the post's info.
So it's the same thing except with an addition of information.
Obviously the easiest and quickest way to make sure the info is correct is to begin the process by pressing the "Quote" button on the person's post and then Copy/Paste as needed.
Hope that makes sense, I'm a bit under the weather today + it's cold, dark and rainy, so I'm kind of fuzzy headed too (Ok, more fuzzy than usual) Try it out once or twice on this thread if you want, you can just delete any mistake post - I'll know what's going on, but somehow I have the feeling you'll pick up on it right away just fine, Boggin
I do have a couple questions that I want to leave for Shane when he drops by but I'll have to post about them in a while from now, but I wanted to get back to you about the quotes first and foremost.
Take it easy, mate.