Alright so, here's my issue; my computer is a piece of crap. And I really mean a piece of crap. I honestly don't know how long it can last, but it is on it's last leg. At the moment I can't afford a new computer even though I desperately need a new one, but I estimate that I'll have enough for a good one around December, before then though I need this one to work. So here's what it's doing; it overheats terribly (I was able to thaw some completely frozen solid ground beef in a matter of minutes on it), it crashes without warning and turns its self off (this happens a lot when I'm doing things in Word and Photoshop), and it whines that it has no disc space despite the fact that I keep all of my music, videos, photos, stories, and art off of the hard drive (it pretty much has no reason to have no space left, it just sucks). Overall this computer is terrible and I've known it for years but have dealt with it until it started affecting my work.

I've cleaned the fan several times, the most recent cleaning was yesterday even, so it can't be the fan overheating and I recently fixed its "not going into standby mode" issue but it still crashes unexpectedly and gets very (painfully) hot. I don't know what to do but it is imperative that I have a working computer, not only so I can do my art (which is primarily digital) but I need it for school. I need this computer to work just a little longer, but it is in some really bad shape at this point.

So does anyone know anything that can help me? I have a Acer Aspire 5000 laptop that, according to a sticker on the back, was made in 2004 *cringes*. I'm getting very desperate right now and I really need some help.