Assume you have a 6 year old Compaq Presario 3000, disk is full of programs no longer (or never) used. Plus: it has been dropped so that the display's lower 5mm are garbled up and the DVD drive no longer closes.
Throw it in the trash?
Or:
- Reinstall Windows from scratch, then add Google Chrome, GIMP, EchoLink, Java, Eclipse
- Move the task bar from the damaged lower section to the left of the display
- Close the DVD drive with tape
- Add more memory, 1GB can be had for less than $30
Voila, good as new! Not really, but good enough for the shack, plus its speaker system is nice for watching online movies.
Damaged Display  | DVD Drive that won't close  |
Task Bar at left, avoiding Damaged Display  | "Fixed" DVD Drive  |
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