Thanks abunch agapetos, I'll check all of this out. I have dial up service and any online updates are a pain. I know I haven't updated any Nvidia drivers since I've owned it unless windows has automatically done it for me. Now that you mention it, I'm also not sure my antivirus was disabled. I got rid of the Norton that was on the PC when I bought it and now I have AVG.(not the free version, paid about $150 for this one) I closed out the AVG control box icon, but I'm not sure if this actually disables it or do I have to go into "my computer" and "control panel" to dissable AVG?