running firefox now, seems to be ok but tbh i havent noticed much difference yet.
cleaned up the memory loads though, there was only 1% free, there were things i had tried to copy that were saved as VOB files, after i got rid of a load of stuff i defragmented my hard drive for the 1st time since i got the laptop.... 4 years ago.
my next task will be to sort out D drive, i have an external hd (1tb) for putting all the photo's and vids of the kids on, so really i can get rid of loads of stuff. so all together things are running more smoothly anyway.