Recently, I've been having alot of problems with my computer. Basically, too much stuff on my hard drive, to many registeries' screw ups, and things along those lines. So now, when windows loads, and I get on the desktop, not much works. I mouseover the taskbar and I get the little busy thing, and doesnt let me start anything. I've tried safe mode, and thats what I'm in now. I've already tried AV, Trojan, Adaware, Spybot, and many of those things, and all are fine. So I guess Im left to reinstalling windows...I tried, and I get an error after the installation has loaded. It says there is something wrong with the hardware or software, something new installed. So I decided to in stall FreeBSD 4.9 on this computer instead, and put windows XP on my other computer with the untouched hard drive. What do you guys think? Is this a good plan? The Windows XP computer will be used for programming, making graphics, and playing counter-strike . The FreeBSD computer will be used as a server.