I personally would not get a celeron processor not when you can get much better faster ones now days for great prices. I use linux 98% of the time and if I am online I am on linux, your old pc would be an excellent candidate for a linux distro, I am not a huge ubuntu fan, I do have it as a dual boot on my linux box but never use it, I use daily and LOVE Mepis linux, it is very easy to use and not that hard to transition to from windows, it uses KDE desktop which I find much more user friendly and more similar to windows. I have several computers I have them all connected to a KVM switch so I use only one monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers it is the perfect set up, with the click of a button I can switch back and forth between machines and Operating systems. The great thing about linux is you can try it with out installing or changing a thing on your pc. They have live cd which allows you to simply insert the cd into your pc reboot the pc to the cd and you can run it right off of the cd, when you want to go back to your regular OS take the cd out and reboot back to pc. That gives you a good feel for it and to see if all your "stuff" works well with linux, Mepis usually detects everything right out of the box unlike other distros. You can either order a cd for a couple of bucks or you can burn your own ISO disc to use for your live cd. You can find most all distros including Mepis and Ubuntu at DistroWatch.com you can order the ubuntu and kubuntu discs from Kubuntu kubuntu is the version of ubuntu that uses KDE desktop which is my preferred. you can also find the ubuntu cds available there for free too. It takes about 2 weeks to get them. Feel free to ask what ever you need to know, plus there are excellent dedicated linux forums that are extremely helpful, I use mepislovers. Mepis8 the newest version is available in regular 32 or 64 bit from here MEPIS Linux I am still on Mepis7 but that will change hopefully soon to 8. to use on very very old computers there are very small versions like puppy linux, damn small linux and the mepis version AntiX. You can even carry some on a usb flash drive.

For newer versions of Chrome, the setting for auto-translate is accessed somewhat differently. Here is a link that might be useful: Chrome Auto-translate

Seems to me that by using 3 browsers you are creating problems for yourself. Each can do anything you need so why not settle on one and use it exclusively? Photos should show in MY Pictures the same way as they did in XP. Right click on the Start button then click to open Windows Explorer in the pop up, you should see the same XP type screen with folders down the left side and the contents of the highlighted folder listed on the right side. Double clicking on a photo should bring the photo up full size in Windows Picture Viewer where you can click arrows to move left or right or click the centre button to have the photos in a slideshow. As regards Microsoft Office do you have the stripped down free version or the real McCoy on a 60 day trial? If a 60 day trial version and you do not want it you can use Wordpad for word processing. You can reach that by Clicking Start, click All programs, click Accessories click Wordpad. Not sure what format Wordpad uses but be sure you set it to .rtf (Rich Text format) so that anyone else can read it on any computer. Or you can download the free Open Office for the full suite or if just a word processor there is Abiword also for free.

Hey Papillon young man, as DA notes, go for Win 8. Either will confuse the bejabbers out of you for a while so why struggle through 7 only to have to maybe go to 8 later? I fought with 8 because I had 7 and was comfortable. One day I said enough, I still have both machines plus a couple of XP boxes. Do you have the CD for Office 2007? If so you simply install and activate it. Your new confuser may well have a trial version of Office, remove that before loading from your own CD. If by any chance Microsoft cut you off during activation phone them (toll free) and demand to be activated. I recently had such a situation when reloading Windows 7 after rebuilding the computer. They have no concept of innocent until proven guilty sadly. Which ever one you buy will come with a program called 'Windows Easy Transfer' or similar. This will transfer all your data from the old machine to the new one (it will not remove the data from the old computer never fear).