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Old 04-20-2008, 10:35 PM
CBFalconer
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Default Re: Compaq Presario 5000 Freezes

John the WebTV Man wrote:
>
> Well, at 2am this morning events dictated a new approach as things
> had gotten to the point that the PC would no longer boot windows
> before freezing. I threw in the towel....wiped and reformatted the
> hard drive and did a clean install of Win2K Pro. All seems OK now
> ... I need to install Win2K SP4 [a 130Mb download] and then all my
> protective stuff...AVG 7.5, Ad-Aware, Comodo and SpyBot S&D. When
> that is stable and working OK, then I will install all the
> applications software.


Sounds like you should be considering Linux. Try Ubuntu. No
viruses, no cost, almost guaranteed portable to your machine. For
a free CD try <http://shipit.ubuntu.com>

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