Woops... My bad. I don't know of any way to put an after market cooler on a laptop. I mean you can put it on a stand with a fan under it blowing up but ... that does not seem to be too helpful.

I don't know of a windows bug that eats up disk space but that might be the case on a MacBook...never messed with them. I would try to hold out for Windows 7 if I could and failing that, get the Windows 8.1 ... at least it has a start button on the "Desktop" view. Still, it seems much more suitable for a touch screen than a mouse driven user interface. Just my opinion. But Mrs. Gates boy Bill does not much care about my opinion any more. Looks to me like they would drop the price on it if they really wanted to sell it but it is still ridiculously high.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 10/18 - Active Members

Active team members report
==========================

                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
RT                                1          0     486,742,700         269,652
GeraldRube                        2          0     194,385,267         107,726
judson Somerville MD              3          0     191,788,147          48,373
Coingames                         4          0     101,506,793          45,732
xroule                            5          0      69,343,455          61,490
brown chris                       6          0      63,740,052          69,681
NiceMedTexMD                      7          0      57,154,060          13,455
parmesian                         8          0      51,029,489             280
dkt                               9          0      41,419,075          53,440
finman                           10          0      35,772,891               0
Vuj                              11          0      33,844,877          33,439
keithhenry                       12          0      30,952,343          18,775
darth_vader                      13          0      21,727,369          19,080
nl59056                          14          0      19,454,328           5,863
Fanie                            15          0      18,869,541          10,562
pramodp                          16          0      15,808,229           4,252
smcclarigan                      17          0      15,803,706          17,983
lawrencehardin                   18          0      15,297,672          10,393
Tomwp                            19          0      13,723,185          22,635
PohSoon                          20          0      12,301,735           1,700
largethunder                     21          0       7,635,665          24,190
Jonathon Wright                  22          0       6,639,482           7,507
SteelDragon                      23          0       6,414,797           6,765
johng                            24          0       4,740,839             722
Mechanical                       25          0       4,694,144           4,237
Bravehart                        26          0       2,871,641          13,408
elpe                             27          0       1,894,932             274
Lanscader                        28          0       1,691,443          12,476
CCH                              29          0       1,444,827           2,203
doright                          30          0       1,214,881               0
pauldarleen                      31          0       1,053,956           2,314
barney15c                        32          0         765,254               0
Hintsala                         33          0         760,849           1,884
cht!                             34          0         556,134           6,178
sz2000                           35          0         540,351             451
Harry de Swart                   36          0         362,759               0
imdioxin                         37          0         283,348               0
sm217144                         38          0          89,982               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Twenty active members returning points today:
01: RT - 269,652 points
02: GeraldRube - 107,726 points
03: brown chris - 69,681 points
04: xroule - 61,490 points
05: dkt - 53,440 points
06: judson Somerville MD - 48,373 points
07: Coingames - 45,732 points
08: Vuj - 33,439 points
09: largethunder - 24,190 points
10: Tomwp - 22,635 points
11: darth_vader - 19,080 points
12: keithhenry - 18,775 points
13: smcclarigan - 17,983 points
14: NiceMedTexMD - 13,455 points
15: Bravehart - 13,408 points
16: Lanscader - 12,476 points
17: Fanie - 10,562 points
18: lawrencehardin - 10,393 points
19: Jonathon Wright - 7,507 points
20: SteelDragon - 6,765 points

Total points returned today: 897,120
Active members returning points today: 32
Average points per member active today: 28,035.0

Macbook is stored away for the day i get the silly cable and hook it up to my external monitor. It was my photography computer only so I can live without it. This new win8 laptop has been annoying from day one. it lives on a chill pad. Ive had the OS reinstalled once already cause it was hanging. Runs better now but I still get the disk max crap all the time. supper annoying. needless to say i almost have no choice but to upgrade to the 8.1. Never shoulda bought another windows pc.

Years back, I worked with a guy who seemed to always have problems with his PC at work. It was way slow and blue screened on him. Always seemed to be giving him trouble. He was always deleting stuff too. Turned out the hard disk was almost full most of the time. That didn't leave enough space for the swap/paging file plus he never took the time to defrag. This was back in the NT and 2K days. With the way Windows works, it's smart to defrag at least once a week if you're crunching on it.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 10/19 - All Members:

Team rank movement report
=========================

                              Prior                New         Current
Member name                   Rank      Change     Rank        Points
=========================     =====     ======     =====     ===========
pramodp                          21         -1        22      15,810,449
smcclarigan                      22         +1        21      15,811,498
frans6nl                         31         -1        32       7,649,537
largethunder                     32         +1        31       7,660,334

Points milestones report
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No points milestones found.

Runtime milestones report
=========================
No runtime milestones found.

Results returned milestones report
==================================
No results returned milestones found.

New members report
==================
No new members found.

Retired members report
======================
No new retired members found.

For the week as a team:

Statistics  Total Run Time  Points     Results

Date         (y:d:h:m:s)    Earned     Returned
10/19/2013  0:281:15:57:09    896,294  2,614 
10/18/2013  0:273:12:50:42    897,120  2,406 
10/17/2013  0:255:00:31:28    821,181  2,158 
10/16/2013  0:257:17:37:39    833,564  2,132 
10/15/2013  0:274:03:24:39    862,598  2,178 
10/14/2013  0:257:02:09:22    845,523  2,102 
10/13/2013  0:238:02:33:28    788,437  1,863

Team Records:
Results Returned: 11/13/2012 8,777
Points: 01/06/2013 3,311,422
Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42

Team Streaks:

Results Returned:
-Over 1000:  90 days  
-Over 2000:   6 days  
-Over 3000:   0 days
-Over 4000:   0 days
Points:
-Over   250,000: 414 days 
-Over   500,000: 414 days 
-Over   750,000:  14 days  
-Over 1,000,000:   0 days
-Over 1,250,000:   0 days
-Over 1,500,000:   0 days
-Over 1,750,000:   0 days
-Over 2,000,000:   0 days
Runtime:
-Over  90 days: 414 days 
-Over 180 days:  64 days  
-Over 270 days:   2 days  
-Over 365 days:   0 days

Good crunching folks!!!!!