ken barber wrote:

> well mozilla and netscape are giving me the blue
> screen of death. not as much as IE. judy has been
> telling me that it was just this old hp. "i should
> take a ball bat to it and get a new computer."  the hp
> never gets itsself closed at shutdown like it did when
> new. for over two years now, at least, it will not
> boot up without a rest of 15-20 minutes after it is
> shut down. could judy be right?

It sounds as though you must be running some flavor of Windows 9x, probably
windows 98. Am I correct?

If so, your best bet - assuming your machine has enough "horsepower" (2GB
free hd space, at least 128 MB RAM, a Pentium II processor running at at
least 500 MHz) - would be to upgrade to windows 2000 or windows XP. 98 was a
POS right out of the box, and age has not improved it.

If your machine doesn't meet those specs, I think perhaps a trip to your
local electronics emporium _would_ be the best bet.

Just another opinion...

Brent