Most of the MS API's, .dlls and .exe were left in tact. I did not stop all start up programs. I chose the ones that I could identfiy easily, such as acro reader updating programs, and MS office project sharing programs that I don't use. Now my system is running perfectly.
Sorry, but I cannot believe this!
Firstly, I do not use any MS office products, Kaspersky or Adobe reader. So disabling them could not possibly help me.
Sedondly, what kind of advice is this? Randomly and without deeper knowledg disabling automatically started programs?! That is not something that could be reliable reproduced for a specific fix and it is dangerous and can have any number of side effects.
Thirdly, if you really have that kind of hardware, you should be ably to run dozens of preloaders, schedulers and bloatware and not even notice them. With my 7 gigs it took over an hour to notice the memory leak. And even then it was only because there was a short freeze and then an error that I have not enough memory.
If your system was not "running perfectly" before, there is the possibilty that you had malware, that you now have disabled from starting. And maybe you had features on, that reduce the perceived performance. When I first upgraded my old xp system to a ssd, the load time of the navigation bar in my browser took about a second to show suggestions based on my chronic and with the ssd it went down to instantly. Those little waiting times make the perception of a system "slow". But you say you aldread have eliminated this bottleneck. Waiting times for responses over the net might be another source for perceived slowness. Or if you define "fast system" with booting. A ton of schedulers and such to load on boot time would slow down the responsiveness shortly after booting, but no more.
So to summarize: you claim you have KB2670838 on your system, have 3D-mp4 files and could not generate thumbnails for them but can now, because you deactivated MS Office / Adobe preloaders, schedulers and the like? But you cannot link this fix to any specific autostart program you deactivated?
Note: the leak on my system could be "fixed" by renaming my only 3D-mp4 to mkv, because there are no thumbnails generated for mkvs on my system.