its better, i think

we'll find out in a bit. my computer, as i've complained about on numerous occasions, was experiencing technical difficulties. so, instead of taking it into the computer help desk (last time i did that, they had my computer for 3 days, and all they did was run the fixblaster and fixwelcia tools), i decided it needed a deep clean. so i formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows. its running a lot smoother now, although for some reason taskmanager still isn't working. if anybody knows what's going on with that, i'd appreciate the help. until then, i'm going to be reinstalling stuff. wish me luck.