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What do you mean when you say it died? Hard drive go? Power supply give up the ghost? If you system was serving your needs, there may be an easy fix.

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Being 5 years old there were numerous probs with it. The CD drive hasnt worked in a long time. It was incredible slow, when I defraged, it would say something like "normally we need 15% of disk space you only have 2% would you still like to defrag." So I tried to fix some of these problems and started deleting "stuff." Then poof, no more workie !!

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Buying a bigger hard drive and reinstalling Windows and your software might be an option. I would guess that some of the "stuff" you deleted was critical OS files. OTOH, if you can afford it, considering that your PC is 5 years old and had several problems, buying a new one is not a bad idea.