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Thank you for the support! I think I am getting closer and get at least the basics now. After installing the files via MO I can see them showing up in the data section - the plugins and archives are unchanged. Now oddly enough the system still crashes for as long as I don't deselect both the Dawnguard.esm and Dragonborn.esm. Is this supposed to work like that? One final question, do I need to activate the 3 HighResTexturePack ESPs in the MO's Plugin section in addition or do the optimized texture mods now to the job without it?

I was able to follow the guide pretty much to the very end but there I got a bit lost. I end up with 6 individual 7 zip files (having Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLCs) in the working folder I created (which is outside of the Skyrim directory). As I read the instruction I should now move these 6 archives to the skyrim data folder and remove from there in my case 6 bsa files (HighResPacks 1-3, Skyrim - Textures, Dawnguard and Dragonborn). Probably I got something about these last activities required wrong since when I start the (otherwise unmodified) Skyrim now, it crashes at the title screen.