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Originally Posted by azasadny

In the past several weeks, I've rebuilt 5 old Dell PC's and then loaded Win7 on them and they run like new! I help people whose PC's are "dead" and they don't have much $, so I find parts (RAM, hard drives, video cards, etc...) that I've scavenged and then install Windows 7 when I'm all done with the hardware and the OS makes these old, but still good PC's run really well and everyone's happy!

i do this a lot, also. i have all kinds of hardware and software sitting in my boneyard. i rarely toss anything, as i usually find a home for most everything.

Originally Posted by rick-l

So the collective wisdom is:

• buy a new computer
• buy a new operating system

I think I'll stick with the 3 mouse clicks at power up

meh.... why not.