LOLOL, Ernest, I'm a 'girl' and I wish you lived next door to me because all I know how to do is clean out things and check Norton, Spybot, Adaware, Zone Alarm and download a registry cleaner!!
What really helped was when I emptied the 'recycle bin' which I haven't done in the two years I've had this computer!!
First you delete, then you empty out the trash - I hope ther isn't another place where you trash the trash but I'm sure there is!!
I'm sure not opening up the computer to fix a bent pin!
Well I had built it so I knew where the cable was...
Assembling your own is a lot of fun....I am putting another one together out on my patio, can hold 12 hard drives.....
It is going to be a very large video recorder....has an ATI All in Wonder card in it and over a Terabyte of storage and a new DVD dual layer burner....
Got a picture of it right here: