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These are all great suggestions. Thanks.

As for me right now, I think I would lose a lot with a wipe and reload OS. My
daughter had an IT friend of hers install some programs that always come
up "not genuine - more info / remind me later" and I always go for "later."

I think those programs would not be there anymore with a re-install because
I don't have CDs for them.

I'm using Safe Mode right now, and it works great, very fast. But I can't run
any videos on YouTube or DVDs, because no sound in Safe Mode.

Also, a weird thing, is every so often, my mouse left-clicks all by itself.
I have to put the arrow pointer on the scroll bar slider while I type so that
when the mouse ghost-clicks, it doesn't move my cursor to another place on
the page.

Another weird thing, every 10 hours or so, after having the computer running
for that long without a restart, suddenly the mouse pointer disappears and shows
up in the top-right corner of the screen, and it left-ghost-clicks there. I get a
popup window asking for confirmation, "You are about to close 5 tabs - continue /
cancel) I hit cancel and finish up what I'm doing quick, so I can restart, because
that's the only way to get rid of that flyaway glitch. I'm thinking its a corruption
of the mouse driver.

I have a friend who was having some strange things going on with his computer
not responding fast, or certain commands were not effective, and he hired a
geek squad guy to come and do a service call. He stayed there for about 2 hours
doing various procedures, and fixed it. He then explained that he had found
several worms, a keylogger, trojans and one sneaky one hiding as a driver for
his modem. It was a virus UNDER DISGUISE as a driver. That was impressive.
He said a virus scan would never find that, because it doesn't look like a virus,
but rather looks like a useful software program.