Old Hippy, Think (not positive) that only one person posted here in the past year, that they were having problems with plants in hypertufa. Don't know if it was the planter, the plants or the gardener. I use a large plastic muck bucket to leach out the lime. If it's not something fragile like a thin walled planter or leaf casting, place it in the water bath after you unmold and clean or carve the piece. Change the water every day and you shouldn't have a problem with lime. The lime can still burn your skin so wear gloves. You can plant in about three days. It's actually best if you unmold, clean the piece, spray with water, place back in plastic bag in the shade for a couple of days then place in a water bath for about 3 days. You can plant in a week to a week and a half. Good luck! Billie

I run many of the same programs and I run them all regular not safe mode. If you are having restart issues with defrag in regular mode I have to ask do you remember to turn off your screensaver and any other hibernate or sleep modes or programs that would make the defrag do that restart? It is very important to turn all of that off when doing a defrag. Also defrag will start to have problems when you are beginning to get short on disc space, and having a good supply of RAM is helpful too. If you would like suggestions for other very good programs to add to that list I would suggest Spywareblaster and possibly SpywareGuard both free and both super programs. available here http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/products.html the spywareblaster free version you do have to remember to open it and hit the update button about once a week so it can get the new definitions then hit the enable all protection button to get it started. There is an option to pay a fee to get the auto-update.

In my many times trying the AppRemover... it mostly doesn't work, especially in xp. It either cant find anything.. or it says it did and asks reboot now... and doesn't remove the folders and their contents, and leaves some keys too. Think it does find mostly the AppData Have used it and seen that too many times in way too many computers. Wish it was reliable, would make life simpler for me than searching each time for the right dang uninstall tools.

this is a suggestion, maybe you can take the side off the tower and take some pictures of the inside especially the fan you suspect to be the culprit and someone here can then have a better idea what exactly it is you are dealing with and you can take a picture of the one your bought or the package. There are very good picture tutorials online on how to replace fans but as stated working with power supplies can be very dangerous. The other fans are not that difficult to replace. Personally I would consider replacing the entire power supply on a pc that old since it will likely go bad soon anyway and is probably much less powerful than the ones used today so you could upgrade to a much better power supply and that task is easier to take on. here is a step by step with pics for replacing a power supply fan. Computer Power Supply Fan Replacement Here is a nice one with pics for how to replace the entire power supply How To Replace Your Power Supply Keep in mind that pc is quite old and out dated so decide just how much you are willing to put into it. I definitely would take up Owbist on his offer!