hey everyone,

 

so i decided to defrag my new system using the windows defrag tool under properties, clean up disk for the c drive.  no reason to but thought, what the hey. ever since then my system is slower than molasses in january. opening or starting an app or program takes a few minutes no matter how long the computer's been running. when the task manager eventually starts up i don't see anything taking up massive amounts of cpu usage. i do notice that around 40-50% of my memory is used at any given time. could be those 60-some-odd processes vista uses now.

anyway if anyone has any ideas/suggestions/comments i would greatly appreciated your feedback. thanks!