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OMG, Zeke. You should donate that to a museum. Hahahah

You could probably speed things up a bit it if you could put more ram in the machine. The ram for a PC like that is probably much more costly than current RAM and the PC motherboard may not support much. Windows 98 is also a dog. It was much better than 95. For $500 you could get a pc that was much, much faster. The most important thing to remember if you get a new pc is to get enough RAM, 512MB RAM should be plenty for what you do if you've been getting by on your current PC.

DSL is much, much faster. Amazingly so, cable too. And with a good firewall, Trend Micro antivirus, XP's newest security features, and XP automatic update you can actually be pretty darn safe.

I have exactly that, firewall, trend micro, and I keep Trend Micro and XP updated all of the time. I never even see anything bad on my PC, and I keep my PC online 24x7x365, it's always connected to the internet.