After looking back and then thinking back and thinking last night "ha this is probubly a dot net fix not a sound fix"
i started looking for dot net answers.
I found these two articles.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2007/03/26/how-to-repair-the-net-framework-2-0-and-3-0-on-windows-vista.aspx
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html
I tried and ran the commands.
sfc update and then sfc SCANNOW
Watching it run in performance monitor and I see it doing EXACTLY what it used to do when i use to run the old HP Assistant.
Ill run it three times like it says in sevenforums and see if that works (considering it always too three days leaveing it overnight and three restarts.