OK lads
cheers for the replies, but I'm a complete novice with pc's all the above is like reading french to me,
iv got the discs to re-install drivers and software and stuff like that but i dont see a XP cd or a recovery disc.

the page it redirects me to was changing all the time, i was backing stuff up this afternoon and deleting old files etc and now google is coming up ok??????? but the pc is still slow as fuck,

what should i do with it now????? the window is openl lol