Hoooo boy am I relieved.

I uninstalled "Intel Utility Lite" and restarted Windows.

That's all it took. Everything is fine now.

Jeez, I was ready to reformat my hard drive, reinstall Windows and all my apps and drivers and hang 7 virgin chickens in my North-facing window to fix this problem.

Who knew it would be so simple!

Yes Eric, it is definitely a love-hate relationship with computers.

Thanks again for hanging with me through this!!!

Oh wow! I'm glad you figured that out! Some of these companies should be ashamed of themselves for releasing that kinda stuff into the world. :(

Might wanna hang the computer up in the north window while you're at it and run it from there. ;)

Glad you have it fixed.