Thanks Mate

Its working a little better which is good,

however i still get the dreaded 'beachball of death' for a about 5-10 seconds when I use other programs... such as now... i'm trying to type this to you and twice it has shown the beachball so i have to wait until it goes away. Do you know whats up with that???

i guess i can be thankful its not freezing the computer for very lengthy periods of time like before..