How is it possible that, when copying tracks from my Tracy Chapman CD onto my hard drive, the music that comes up and overlays is "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles?

Well, playing back the track that was in question ("New Beginning"), the superimposition seems to have vanished.

That was strange.

My project for the foreseeable future: copy all of my music on hard media to my laptop, so I can eliminate some of the weight I have to lug around every day.

I did some detective work on my computer and found files that weren't indispensible. In fact, there were things actually entitled "emalware". I relabeled them, shut down the computer, rebooted. It's running much faster and quieter now.

However, when I look at what programs are running when I'm not on the internet, Explorer still shows up. Which means there's still something on this machine, somewhere, that needs to go.