you mention adding charter security suite, did you fully remove the other antivirus programs you had on the pc with the specific removal tools for that program? That is one thing that will definitely cause these kinds of problems. What was the antivirus program you had before you put on charter? And yes the large antivirus suites can very much slow down performance. Computers are built with various fans some are just for the extra work and only kick on when they are needed so it is not uncommon to hear one come on when doing anything that requires more usage of the cpu. It might be a good time to go ahead and do as suggested and open it up and clean it out, even sitting in storage bugs and stuff can get in boxes. Also use a program like startup lite by the makers of malwarebytes to check your start up items and possibly whittle those down. StartUpLite Have you run an updated malwarebytes scan lately? if not definitely do so. How to download and install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware application for Windows computers malware can also over tax a computer. with your firefox as I mentioned earlier you definitely should add those items I suggested.

Sounds like maybe the darker color thing mentioned above may also play into it. My 2001 Grand Cherokee ( factory am/fm/cd/casette player) will not recognize burned CDs. i am currently using my laptop with XP and have tried windows player, I-tunes and BurnerXP but haven't noticed any different results from any of that different software. After going thru about 30 cds burning at different speeds and formats, I finally got it to occasionally recognize one I burnt at around 4X using PCM .wav (uncompressed) format but to recognize and play I usually have to fast forward it thru a couple of songs while it is doing the initial read. Once it recognizes and starts playing then will usually play the whole CD but doesn't always work for whatever reason. I may try the label thing or try to find some of the "dark" cds to see if that matters. We have a 98 KIA witn an aftermarket cd player and it will play just about anything burnt to cd no matter format or speed.

I am wondering if anyone other than TKO GW members would even think to ask, or even ponder, that this is not "real marble". Yes, this is coming from the woman who thought it was real when she saw it in the showroom, but still -- would your typical kitchen visitor know if it was "live or memorex"? (OK, you may be too young to remember that commercial). There is another thread (or maybe more) in the past few days where people discussed that the carrara and calacatta marble subway tile samples they recieved had varying yellow tones amongst white tiles. I think that unless you can get subways made from the sibling slab of your island, you are going to have a variation in the color of the subs, or in the veining. The ceramic may provide a more consistant color amongst the tiles. Even though it may be whiter than your island slab, it will be white like the slab, and not yellow; like some "real" tiles may be. But then again, unless you've asked a TKO individual over, they might not notice the yellow tones possible in the real marble tiles. I also think that there are enough ohhs and ahhs in your kitchen that the typical visitor won't even begin to notice any possible differences. At least any visitors I have wouldn't.

I guess when you post this far down, the audience is smaller but there are a lot of comments you want to chime in on. Here goes Just finished "What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achek Deng, A Novel" by David Eggers. Blew me away. Spent the entire weekend reading (and have the piles of still-unwashed laundry to prove it) and wrote a letter to my senator upon reaching the end. It's the story of one of the Sudan Lost Boys. Heartbreaking. Go. Find. Read. I finished "1776" on tape in the car. David McCullogh is so fine in print and that voice. So comforting. Very American. It was also thrilling knowing some of the roads on which I commute to work were once the paths these armies marched on that year. Very American? Well, ya gotta love Elmore Leonard, I zoomed through "The Hot Kid." Bank robbers in Depression era Oklahoma. His usual: fun read, great dialogue. Also devoured T.S. Boyle's "Talk, Talk," right up there with "Tortilla Curtain" for the-way-we-live-now look at materalistic America. Great descriptions of scenes we take for granted. Recommend both. I just started "Saturday" by Ian McEwan. He is sly perfection. lulls you in with smooth, delightfully structured prose and leads you right to a thrumming insight. that's about the best way I can describe it, but then that's why I'm a reader not a writer. Anyway, completely thrilling. makes it look so easy,--"why isn't everyone writing like this?" you think--guy's a genius. I can back recommendations for David Lodge and Margaret Atwood. I'd read anything either of them would care to write, including grocery lists. I'm going to recommend "Oryx and Crake" next month for the book club. Very funny and horrifying take on the annihilation of mankind. My nightmares are still haunted by 'pigoons'. Speaking of postapocalyptic novels, I have a hold in at the library for "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, anyone read it? That's my next TBR. How did you like it? My two cents (or more like a shilling) on the best postsurgery book: "The Quincunx." It's like Dickens. A fat novel filled with colorful (and menacing) early Victorian characters but without the philosophical asides. I give copies to anyone scheduled for some rest time. Best for those who've had bunion surgery or the like who need to stay in bed. Once the main character arrives in London, the book is the ultimate can't-put-it-down tome. (I guess that's not so good if you've had shoulder surgery, though!) Will add "Perfume," "The Other Boleyn Sister," "Gathering Blue" and 'Water for Elephants" to the pile thanks to you. Last bit here, a request. How do you italicize book titles for these postings? I'd prefer that to my quotation marks but don't know the right command. CTRL-I on highlighted words doesn't seem to work for me. Thanks, Amy