die die die compac scum

my laptop is freaking out. It keeps freezing just before all the icons or the start menu appears. I restarted it like 4 times last night before i gave up. I tried again this morning and after literally 3 hours of program errors, task manager commands, program not responding messages and failed attempts to cancel all processes and appllications i gave up and turned on old faithful... the pc i got as a feshman in high school that still runs on dail-up and windows 95. I can't see 80% of the graphics this blog normally has. but i can check my e-mail and chat on aim. at least this hunk of junk is functional. too bad i won't be able to take it to class with me when i start in two weeks.