Quote Originally Posted by Regina View Post
I run Norton antivirus, which updates and scans regularly and which I've been told is a pig of a program and may also be the cause of some slow performance. AOL gives us spyware checks, but I wonder about that. DH had his computer guy check our p.c. out recently, and he said it looked fine in the virus/spyware department. Files have been moved to a second internal hard drive, and yeah..I'm overdue for a backup.

Can you even get a new p.c. these days that *doesn't* have Vista??
AOL is also a resource hog and can slow down a system.
New computers are pretty darn cheap with rebates etc, why not just go for it?

Plus, with upgrading a compaq- you may run into issues with the way the hardware is put together, all integrated so that it's not possible to upgrade. Me, I always go with a custom build ( courtesy the geek child) which makes it easy to add/remove/upgrade hardware as long as there aren't compatibility issues.