Glad you got it sorted out. I need to do backups more often, too, though I do have GoBack installed which would have easily fixed a "banging on the keys" problem.

By the way, my "oldie" will be 10 years old in May. It came with Win95 plus a free upgrade to Win98, which arrived in late June '98. It's a Dell, P-II, 400mhz, with 348GB RAM (the max), a 200 watt power supply, and CD, floppy, and Iomega Zip drives. I replaced the original 8 GB hard drive after a few years and added two more, all WD's. At some point, I installed XP - dual booting it with Win98.

I've still got the old 8GB drive laying around in case I ever get senile and want to reminisce. I used the computer full time until last summer.

I still keep the usual battery of anti-malware programs updated, as well as all applicable MS updates. I've never had a single mechanical problem with it but there have been almost innumerable user-caused issues over the years. I've considered handing it down but so far can't bring myself to do it.

It's not that slow!!!

Jim.