Well I think I finally have this solved. i tried going in and setting it to "normal" and found it was already at normal. I found this thread while browsing for others that had the same issue:
http://apcmag.com/Forum.htm?g=posts&m=4596So I un-installed AVG. And guess what the problem went away pronto. Well now the only prob is finding another anti-virus that covers as much as AVG did that I like. I am using a trial of Panda Internet Security 2009. I don't like it bc they have like 10 Process running at once hogging LOADS of memory and VM. I also cause one that was running at 62K+ and stated according to System Explorer it was "Panda Advertising" Not sure what that was about. So now I'm going to browse the threads here see what other Anti-Virus's are suggested.