Buying a new PC/MSN help

[Seahawk]

With 12GB you might be able to even get by with disabling the paging file on Windows, you'd seriously have a light speed system then, since the CPU hardly ever goes to the hard drive. Most people try doing it without enough memory.........a ha hah ah ha the stories I've heard =P.

The registry is not the D drive, it is locked up in some deep dark dungeon in the Windows system folder somewhere. It doesn't really take up much space, but crap entries from stuff you've uninstalled will stay behind and when booting up the system will try loading files and applications that don't exist, slowing it down. Depending on the OS the D drive might just be some automatic backup.

And PS1 emulators are simple =P. The old abused Pentium 4 my parents have at 2.2Ghz, 512MB(!) of RAM, 80GB hard drive, and no video card plays 100% just fine XD.

If you have any spare keyboard and mice, you can opt out and not get a keyboard/mouse with the new computer to save a few bucks. Just make sure that old keyboard/mouse plug into USB ports, or your new computer will have PS/2 (not playstation 2) ports (ancient purple and green connector).

Anyways good luck with whatever you decide to do =).