My Windows POS computer started acting up from the first boot. Everything I tried, and I tried everything. I reconfigured, reinstalled, reset, rebooted, removed, relocated, reran, reworked, reallocated, remapped, reconsidered, reformatted, reloaded, really. This aint my first rodeo. Like I've always said, "I wont put anything on my computer that I wouldn't put in the trash. I even did a "repair reinstall" this is where I lost it, completely, utterly, fully, lost it.  After hours of watching a progress bar move one pixel at a time across 17" worth of monitor, expecting the famous ending error message "file not found", or, "wrong parameter", or some other vague clue as to why the stupid thing can't do one stupid thing without being so stupid". The final message after watching the "time remaining" clock go from 1 hr. 35 sec., to 1 hr. 2 min. 40 sec., 2 hrs., 1 hr., 2 hrs.,  for four hours, the banner opens up and say's........."Enter your product code"........... but, you already know the product code, it wasn't a clean reinstall, it was a repair, all old personal data retained, remember? No? Well sheeat, no prob. the sticker's still, wait, where's the sticker? Oh, yeah, in the back. Right where it couldn't be a bigger pain in my fat head, trying to squeeze between the wall and the computer while holding a flashlight, and paper and a pencil, then, trying to write down a 25 number code, and, still be able to read it later.  So, after that adventure in cable land I'm ready to get this show on the road. I enter my 25 digit product code, and.........................................."please wait".............That's all I do with this stupid machine, wait. With a processor speed of 1.6 Ghz, waiting times should be in the nano second. If it really is processing 1.6 billion instructions a second, how long can a few lines of code take...............I mean, maybe a hundred lines.............okay maybe a thousand lines..............well, siht! How many friggin lines -------"The number you entered is invalid". WHAT??????????????

I read somewhere that dust build up can effect the performance of some machines. So, I take my computer out back and put it on the picnic table, and open the side of the case for easy access to all the goodies inside, and sure enough, there was some dust in there, especially on the fan, ugh. So I grab an old extension cord, and plug it in, and then turn on the ol' confuser, got the garden hose with the plastic spray nozzle, and I proceeded to deluge the dust right out of that som bitch.