Thanks for that. Sounds like a plan.
It was a 'freebie', with I think, an AOL deal, so I guess they would have paired back the cost of hardware.
Despite being a Luddite, my pal has got on reasonably well with it, so it must be exceptionally burdened by dross at the moment. I've run CCleaner and it helped, but he'll have to get someone to restore or reload (hushed tones) Vista, unless they can go right though the items weighing it down.
The avaiable memory this AM was 0 for a lot of the time. First time I've ever seen that happen.