Everything is still running fast. No popups or redirects. Only a couple of things I noticed that are probably nothing:
After rebooting, when it's coming back up - the part where the screen says something like "Please select an operating system..." I think you have the choice of selecting operating system options. It's too quick to really see. But anyway, it seems to hold for an extra full second at this screen - where it was quicker before all of this.
This probably doesn't qualify, but the startup item I mentioned earlier is kind of strange. Now I don't see it. But earlier for this particular line item, both the Startup Item and Command were a face - followed by a dot, followed by a question mark. This face was kind of like a smiley icon ;<) I forgot what you call these. But it was more complex, looked kind of like a cat face - obviously mand-made. Before that, the cat face was a cross with a circle at the top - kind of like the Blue Oyster Cult cross. Yeah, that's a stretch. But it's all I can come up with!
