Alright, the first and major problem. Let me tell you first what was happening. Actually, let me tell you my machine. Machine: Gateway DX4300-03 HDD: 1 TB Hitachi Internal SATA HDD Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics (one of these is chipset, by the way, I need to know how to figure out which one is chipset so I can disable that one) Network Adapters: Marvell Yukon 88E8071 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Realtek 8185 Extensible 802.11b/g Wireless Device Processor: AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-core Processor (2.4 GHz) Total Ram (Virtual and Physical): 8 GB (7.75 Usable) OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Alright, now back to the problem. I had never used my wireless networking card before, ever, until a month ago. I was getting an average of one BSOD every day thanks to that stupid card. So, I went into device manager, checked for updates and there were none, so I go to the manufacturer's (Realetk) website and find my card on the site. It's not my exact card but it has the same model number (I guess my card was made specifically for Gateway and whatever). I download the software for the card and I see that the driver is older than the one that I have currently. I click the setup.exe in the folder and everything pops up. Now, before I updated this driver, I thought it a good idea to make a system restore point. So I hit start, type in System Restore in the search and hit enter without even letting it find it first. My CPU fan starts whirring like crazy and everything slows to a crawl. I was like, "what the f***? I know this computer isn't the best in the world, but it shouldn't be having this much trouble right now." I wait for a time and System Restore never pops up and my CPU is still almost maxed out, so I manually go into System Restore and create a restore point, which takes FOREVER. I install the driver, which again, takes FOREVER. I restart my computer. It takes forever to start up. I look at my Task Manager and my CPU is hovering around 50%. Nothing is running, nothing is loading, my computer is (apparently) idle. I look in the task manager and nothing is really taking up any CPU except System Idle Processes (which is hovering around 50%). So, to rectify the problem, somebody suggested I get my hands on the GeekSquad MRI, which I did. I ran it, and it found some viruses, cleaned them out and deleted one file. No change to the system. Then I thought "duh, why don't I do a system restore to the point just before I f***ed everything up." So I attempt a system restore, to the one just before the one I created. This fails miserably (because it can't restore to that point without the file that MRI deleted). I started searching for a way to figure out what was causing my high CPU usage when I stumbled upon this, http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/. I followed this word for word. Now I don't know if my command prompt was elevated or not (as all the examples I saw said it started with C:\Windows\system32; yet mine, even though I followed like 20 different directions on how to start an elevated command prompt, still said C:\Users\User ID), but I did it anyway. The only thing that was really all that high was a file related to the Windows Search function. So I turned that off, restarted the computer. Still the CPU is hovering around 50%. I don't know what to do. Any ideas? Second problem. So I got this folder (it's updates for the MRI), and there is only one account on my computer, my account, which is the administrator. I go to delete this file that I downloaded (through MRI, which saved it to my desktop). Whenever I try to delete it, it says I need special permission from me, the account I am on. I tried renaming the folder (won't let me do that, same thing), I tried changing it so that none of it is read-only (it works, but then when I look at it again, parts of it are read only). I tried changing the sharing options and everything. I can't delete the **** folder. Now if I can't get my computer fixed, I'm going to have to take it into a shop, and I really don't want them seeing that I have that on here. Also, it's a fairly large folder and I want it gone anyway, even though I have a 1 TB HDD, it's about 3/4 full already (and I'm about to install something to it that is almost 100 GB when it comes in the mail - it's all music related stuff (my music, not stolen music)).
