sorry didn't finish it. well here's the rest. my svchost.exe seems to be excessively big and so does IEXPLORE.EXE under the process window also under system information it says im running 1.24ghz. which seems rather slow to me. I havn't figured out how to get into BIOS on this computer yet. i regularly run adaware and spybot S@D. If anyone has any ideas of possible solutions it would be much appreciated.