Dell: Discussions

I purchased my Dell Dimension 2400 Desktop several years ago in order to give my college bound son what I believed to be top notch computer capability here at home. I have never regretted purchasing a Dell. Although I do get a little queasey when it is time to replace the ink cartridges. Our Dell all in one printer has kept up with every request. It was the time when I began a home based business that I realized I could not just keep hitting the save button or I was going to run out of memory. As the system began to slow down sometimes to the speed of smell, that was when I turned to Ebay, bid, and won several flash drive pens. These guys were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Make a file, move a file, make a file, move a file. Cool. There is just one thing...you can not turn me loose with sharp knives, heavy machinery, and, heaven for bid, the computer. The more I tried to relieve the memory stress, the more this system spazzes out. What did I do? Got me by the webcam!! Dell can't even help me, and I have made plenty of calls to tech support. Some how I tweaked when I should have twanged, and now I have programs that are missing application files to open them up. I have system restored back to when Jesus was a boy and that didn't help. I have read and re-read windows xp, gone to microsoft website; everything shy of calling pc 911. Error messages about virtuals and dlls and \32 only muddle my brain that much more. I established another account for myself and that at least gets me up and moving. Unfortunately program systems in the old account are not reachable. Anybody have a clue what I screwed up or if I can reclaim lost data?