Wow. XP with SP 3 is good. System Restore not working bad, Flah Player outdated, I maybe able to help, sound card I had a working on but it's gone. 40 Gb hard drive is a little small, get an extrenal hard drive for extra space is a cheaper way to avoid clogging space on then main harddrive.

sorry it took so long replying.

i've got the flash problem sorted out but i found something sinister hidden deep within the confines of the tiny hard drive.

over 8000 pictures of transvestite porn.(the dealer must have been lazy and not cleaned the hard drive.)

my little brother uses the internet computer a lot (it's called that because the one i use for working has strange statistics but works like a dream. by strange statistics i mean it only has an 8 Gb hard drive) and if he'd stumbled onto there i'd have an awful lot of explaining to do.

i'm currently deleting the images now but its taking an awful long time.

if i cant get rid of them i may have to use the spare windows xp disk to completely reboot the computer from scratch.

Simply wow. That is just a lot of pics on on computer. I am shocked it did not have memory overload. It maybe wiser to re install Windows XP since who knows what those pictures carry with them.

done and done

windows has been re installed and the system restore is back in action

That is good to hear. I had to retore my computer as well. I lost alot but I am slowly getting it back.