playBunny: It is about 5 years old. The HD was replaced a year ago. It was full of viruses then too. It was freezing up like it is now and everytime I re-boot it...when the windows logo and info comes up on start...It shows a message that there is an error in the files and that it is recommended to allow it to check the file system. Each time it always finds finds files that need to be truencated. The technician that we took it to at that time told me that when that message comes up about checking the files that it means the HD is about to go out....so we had him to replace it. Now it's doing the same thing, I did check the fan on the cpu and it seemed to be blowing good.