On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Bruce Miller <subscribe [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca> wrote: > The obvious symptom on the Windows 7 machine is a BSOD (Blue Screen > of Death) almost every 20 minutes. This is so frequent as to make the > machine unusable. I don't know much about Windows these days but I'd say it is suffering from a severe malware problem. First thing I'd consider doing is create a backup, either from the LiveCD or installing Kubuntu (you could always remove it later). Once I have a backup, I would probably just re-install everything. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. _Perl links_ official site : http://www.perl.org/ beginners' help : http://learn.perl.org/faq/beginners.html advance help : http://perlmonks.org/ documentation : http://perldoc.perl.org/ news : http://perlsphere.net/ repository : http://www.cpan.org/ blog : http://blogs.perl.org/ regional groups : http://www.pm.org/