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2 dropped frames after how long of playback?

Thats the amount of frames that were dropped/"skipped" instead of presented. Every dropped frame will result in a tiny lag and usually indicates that your hardware can't handle what you're trying to do. Basically, it is the most important value to keep an eye on because for best results you go as high with your settings as possible as long as you still have smooth playback without framedrops. If they stay constant while playing, your output is smooth without lags or stuttering.

Opening a file, seeking, minimizing the player etc. causes a couple of frames to drop, which is normal and doesn't really matter. But if the number is constantly increasing while watching, it usually means your hardware can't handle it.

2 Frames are nothing to worry about, i'm dropping 8 frames just by displaying the seekbar of my player, for example. What matters is that there are no framedrops while watching.

sure, you gotta pirate it.

I'm not familiar with MS-Store purchased films. Do you buy licenses from the windows store and then can watch it via the integrated movie & tv app ? 
If this is it, you won't get SVP to work with it.
Its either this, or you could of course transcode everything into a non-protected format to remove the drm (which takes longer, has room for user errors and is probably also piracy btw, lol)

drm is cancer.

Its really not that hard - the more frames SVP creates in between the "real" ones, the more artificial the overall image quality will look.
I don't have a HFR display, so i've never experienced interpolation to 120hz but personally I prefer the sharper image of a '23,976 x2 -> 47,952' over a 'x3 -> 71,928' in the most cases. Depends a lot on the source as well, of course.

So yeah, both your settings are "fine" as in - they don't cause unnecessary workload or create "especially bad" frames... I've explained it in the other post already. Integer multiplier = good (if it makes sense is another question)

Sorry, that was indeed confusing.

What i meant is:

Setup madVR / MPC-HC to automatically set your refresh rate accordingly to your input files. Then you can leave the switch in SVP at "To Screen" (because your renderer/player will automatically set your display to 59,94 hz when you play 29,97 hz or to 60,00 fps if you play a 30 fps and so on).,0
Choosing a fixed frame rate is not ideal, because you had to change it whenever you play a video with a different framerate.

I'd look into madVR; its really easy to set up custom resolutions. It actually does everything automatically (the calculations to get to ~47,95hz..)

And you are perfectly safe using the highest settings your hardware supports. In fact, its even safe to go beyond them.

yes, framerate does matter if you want perfectly smooth playback.

SVP theoretically CAN smooth out the playback regardless, but:
Non-integer factors for increasing the Framerate are bad because the necessary workload increases a lot while actually producing worse looking frames.
That's why its always better to set it to "Movie x2" (or x3,... whatever your hardware can handle) instead of "fixed 60fps" or "to screen".

So for example; let's say you have a 24fps video and your display is set to 60hz. According to your config, SVP would do the processing like this:
  24fps * 5 / 2 -> 60fps
which is worse than having it set to either 48 fps (24fps *2) or 72 fps (24 fps * 3) because more calculation/artificial frames lead to more blur and artefacts.

48 fps might look A BIT less fluid than 60 fps, but the gain in quality is totally worth it.

to sum it up; you need to set your screen to a multiple refresh rate of your source materials fps. (eg. 24 fps video -> set your display to either 48, 72 or 144 - nothing in between)
Using madVR you can automatically change the refresh rate accordingly when opening a video file. now with SVP set to match the screen, you are "perfectly" set up.