umm well everything seemed a little bit slow but things don't take forever to open up really, my CPU is at 80% right now but i just tried to open a bunch of things and they all opened in a few seconds, so i think things might have seemed slower because i thought my comp was being slow, is it possible that my processor usage not really be at 80% and its just displaying it wrong? because ive reinstalled vista like 3 or 4 times both 32bit and 64bit and its the same problem. so could nothing be worng at all and its jsut vista is reading the cpu wrong?