hi my brother in law was here earlier (he is good with computers.. not as good as you! but my go-to guy lol.. he is only home 1 wk a month).. and i told him to read thru this thread.. I dont know if he read the whole thing, but he used Crap Cleaner (which i did early on).. then fiddled with a couple of things that i guess he figured was too complicated for my little brain lol, and now my computer is running at 0 -10%!! He just topped off the excellent help you gave me (when he cleans a computer, he usually just formats it lol).

Thank you sooo so so much! you really saved me the price of a new laptop, cause I was ready to put this through the window lol.. Thanks again!