Thank you for your response. I just got on campus but when I’m home to my apartment in 5-6 hours I’ll try what you posted.

I left my computer up in normal mode and by the time I got up it was running smoothly and the internet was working but I only had time to check on it for less than a minute and I’m sure if I tried too much it’d get bogged down again but unfortunately I still can’t get it in safe mode.

I’ll post when I get results later on. Thanks again.