He thought that his drive was going to crash so he started deleting
crap off the drive and after he got rid of about 5gb worth of picts he
said things literally cleared up on the spot.

Sounds crazy to me but - when you have a person who is not a computer
person - if something fixes itself then you are just happy your
computer works. Why it is working - I dont know but Im waiting for
another text saying its totally crashed.