[marklwood]

Sorry, just got back home. Do you have any additional programs on there that could be running in the background? Hit Alt+Ctrl+Del and give me a list of what applications are running and their Mem Usage. We'll start there and see if we can free up some resources.

I feel certain this is where the issue is from your description of the issues. No matter what you do, Windows and it's registry gets filled up with crap over time. We will start here and try the easiest things first, then move on to more if it doesn't resolve itself.