I will look into the battery indicator. On the latency issue, it is better to have a higher or lower latency set?
Also, I need to find that program that removes all the pre-installed crap and see if that fixes anything. I know this computer can do what I need it to.
low latency for fast pc's/RAM, high latency for slower pc/RAM
for pre-installed junk when you got your new laptop, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, and remove them there. Then do clean disk and a defrag, if you need help, let me know.