Well you answered my question. I guess my issue here is that I have been struggling with how drawn out and dare I say 'convoluted' the optimising threads have become. I am presently trying to collect and condense your wisdom on the matter from the milles of posts available into a coherent picture that I master.
I was hoping maybe this article was just a simplified 'global' version of what you have been saying all along.
The most simplistic global version is sitting at the top of this forum
The first 6 posts in the thread about Windows optimizing contains everything you need to know with links to examples
It also includeds recently added links to tuning FSX with instructions
Hardware is different and chosing storage solutions...
you want more?
Give me about 5 minutes