Thanks for the advice Cheshired5.
Creating a clean partition makes really good sense as it would effectively prevent auto-updating of the VMware which seems to be the fundamental problem - there again it could be the bizarre way McAffee behaves with some program installs when it is re-enabled after the install of Vida.
It might make even more sense to do a total uninstall/wipe of Win10Pro on the larger screen Acer laptop which has plenty of RAM, then do a clean install of Win7 Pro, run the updater, then disable auto update, WiFi & etc then do a clean install of ViDA, as it wouldn't have an internet connection there would be no need to re-install the AV which just might resolve the issues I've had of late.
Thanks again.
Best wishes
Alan
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