I have rarely seen windows so screwed up that a virus scan and a reg cleaner can't fix it.
Have him boot into safe mode (without networking) and scan for the viruii. There's a good chance it will work.
Once he gets done with that, have him get and use spyboy, ad aware and easy cleaner (reg cleaner).
I have an 8600 GT in my laptop and it's a great card.
Most power supplies are rated at peak, yes. I'd avoid Allied power supplies.
And you can run DX10 in XP ... I'm running xp and DX10 right now.
I never really had any rules once I got above the age of 13. I like going to bed early so it never was a problem. I also usually woke up for school at 530 ... even though I didn't have to leave until around 745
Not quite pics, but videos
1 - the wrangler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIQnwLaZwqE...feature=related
2 - the custom new york state exhaust on my taurus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-daT46-xec&feature=user
I just got a new gateway ... err used ...
It came with
2.4 Celeron, 256mb memory, CD drive, 40gb hard drive
I upgraded it to
2.6 P4 HT, 1gb memory, DVDRW drive.
It's running openSUSE