[SARGE]

I already posted about her e-mail; now the icon wont even open. She uses AT&T/Yahoo, and [B]only[B] uses her PC for mail. She has pestered me over the phone about this and that the past few weeks, all concerning her e-mail. Talking to her, she doesn't know what a desktop is, and had to walk her into even using her browser. She's age 77. Anyways, her PC being a HP off the shelf and unable to find the CD that came with the thing, I want to do some maintenance but allow the option of nuking the whole thing. She's had it for years and of course has junk and frags - something I didn't want to get into with her. She did finally say it said "XP Home Edition" while booting up, all of course from the HP build from factory. Without her CD that came with the thing, I'm hesitant and out in left field trying to wipe it all out, even with a new HD, since the system CD has all the goodies on it.

My question - since I have the bucks, should I build her one from scratch (something I've done before), and even buy a copy of XP which I will keep at my locale of course? Would put some programs on it and even make a folder called "Mom Do this Weekly), referring to updates, etc. All she uses her PC for is e-mail, but the thing is so bogged down takes forever to even boot. Need some help on this one, fellers.