With the larger demands on even larger PC and hard drives it is imperative that you keep the hard drive
cleaned up, weekly scandisks and defrags. It is also
best to keep (I know it's difficult) 50% of your hard drive free. Run Mcaffee and get all of your OS updates.
I'm currently running Microshaft 2000 Pro SP4.

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