I suppose it could have been the games, although the only ones downloaded were through realarcade which I have been a member of for over a year. For my monthly membership fee I get one free game a month and that is all I ever downloaded. My hard drive is a 60 GB hard drive, and my used space on it was a little over 27 GB at the time I was having problems. So, I wasn't even using half the space. It may be that I need to add RAM. Right now I am okay that it is even working. At least difficult child will have a way to do homework if she needs to for the time being. I was able to reinstall the printer to this computer after I got it back up and running.
Thanks to everybody for their help.
mistmouse