Steve, I'm really glad to hear that you now have a 'new' system. Sometimes, a format/reinstall is the absolute only way to go, but I prefer to leave that as more of a last resort when answering questions online, since I have no way of really knowing how much the person knows about backing up old stuff and getting through the process without an internet connection. Personally, I have no problems with doing it on my own systems (got it down to a science) and rarely hesitate if I feel something isn't working right, but it's not advice I quickly toss around to many others, especially online. :O) Are you still going to play around with Ubuntu to see what it's like? Peace, GMan The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Aiello" <deacondeamon@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:33 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway Question : Update >I got a little pissed at this Gateway machine yesterday morning. It seemed > to be slowing down even more. So I put my 40 gig hard drive into the > older > computer and did a quick reformat on it. Put it into the Gateway and > installed XP on it. Now it works great. It access it without a problem. > and > the machine runs smoother and faster. So that fixed the problems now I > have > to keep telling myself to leave this one alone till it get a new one. > Yeah like that's gonna happen. LOL > Steve --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------