Okay, I've got it figured out: Guys have three basic file folders in our brains called:
1) "And this affects my life - how?"
2) "This affects my life - when?"
3) "This affects my life - NOW!"
Folder #1 has an automatic purge feature. As soon as it's entered - it is deleted.
Folder #2 is designed for short term memory and then is intended to be transferred to Folder #3.
Folder #3 is for crises, emergencies (there is a difference), and the occasional well thought out plan.
The trouble is between the interchange between Folders 2 & 3. I think it's a RAM thing. So the female significant other goes to Sytem Tools and starts with a simple Disk Cleanup and removes a few cobwebs. Then she goes to Scan Disk and runs into trouble because there are errors that need to be repaired and other fragments of info that need to be re-integrated. Eventually, she gets through Scan Disk and then attempts a Defrag, that takes like forever, to get things back into place. For good measure, she then runs a mindware program that uncovers all these other fragments of potentially incoherent stuff, needing to be purged of its data miners. Forget the firewall and anti - virus programs because they are hopelessly outdated. Ultimately, she will have to resort to the inevitable - a total cleaning out of the system and starting from scratch.