What about Windows 7? It is a great operating system and a substantial improvement over Vista. If you are using Windows XP and want to upgrade, just go out and buy a new computer with Windows 7. You may be able to do a fresh install of Win 7 on your older XP computer but frankly, it’s not worth the trouble. If you have a computer that is running Vista you can definitely do an OS upgrade, but I don’t recommend it. The best approach is to do a full install and start fresh. This takes a fair amount of work because you must save your data and reload all of your software, but the result will be a clean fast computer - it will run like a new one and you will have few issues in the future.

Is Internet Explorer causing problems? Want to try a new browser? Check out some of the alternatives. If you want a very fast, lean browser check out Google Chrome. It is free and clearly faster than IE. On the other hand, Firefox lets you add extensions (small programs) to do just about anything you want. Both are great alternatives to the IE. However, if you like IE, be sure to update to Internet Explorer version 8.