Hi Musicman51
One More thing you need to TuneUp your laptops preformance is a registry cleaner, you be surprised at how mush junk is in there and will slow you down.
I have one by WinASO That I find is very good and has an added feature called System Optimizer that futher enhance performance within your registry and it works great, been using it for 1yr 1/2 now no problems.
Link:
http://www.winaso.com/index.htm
Good Luck
Joe.....