98 is right. so what should i go to windows 2000? or
what? beats a new machine. when it is working okay it
has said housepower. i just jumped it to 256 ram. i'll
know for sure after the defrag about the disk space.

--- Brent Edwards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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


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