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Posted on November 5, 2013, in General Stuff. Bookmark the permalink.	3 Comments.
Sounds similar to recent purchases I have made. I did mine for a personal server. Good idea about the power supply by the way.
I just wanted to say, before tossing the old one "who knows where", try a fresh OS installation. You would be surprised how much better it works. A secondary machine may prove useful to you. Windows XP slows down over time. I have no idea why… I suspect registry, fonts, meta-data in your profile and start-up program agents loaded by software you have used over the years. I hope Windows 7 & 8 last longer between installs… the jury is still out on that one.
Unless you have the key to an XP disk that does not require "activation", or a quick-restore from the vendor, you might consider loading Linux on that old box.
You will notice on the right side of the page (just below new distribution announcements) there is a stock-ticker like view of Linux OS popularity "page hit ranking". From those links, you can easily visit popular Linux distributions and download installer disks. The big difference between distributions are software management and desktop interfaces. I use Ubuntu, which has a good & easy way to install applications. Ubuntu also has a touch-inspired UI, which I unloaded for the more familiar Gnome style desktop (there are dozens of desktop managers out there).
If you already play around with Linux, pardon the advice. If you have not tried it recently, then give it another shot on your old box. I do not know if it has any software useful for broadcasts, but it would not surprise me if someone has made some.
Thanks, Gene! I dunno if my olive loaf that passes for brains will mesh well with Linux, but it's tempting…at some point. I've still got stuff stowed out of sight-and mind-on the older machine and will retrieve it as needed for a while, as well as use it as a fallback in the (heavens forbid) event of a problem with this new machine. Good suggestion!