You might need to takle a ball bat to it, but have you tried defraging
it?   Also, you might have a lot of files you don't need uding up your
hard disk space..

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?
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