What Am I Dealing With Here?

[KLONDIKEMIKE]

11 years. Thats a good run for a computer.

[KB9BVN]

11 years of use from a PC is fantastic....however, it's about 7 years past needing to be replaced. I would not trust it to hold anything important, it's living on borrowed time. Unless your other PCs are in the same age group, you may run into trouble getting MS Money to even run. Microsoft discontinued support for MS Money in 2008.

Nice job on the power supply fix! I probably would have recycled the PC and found a replacement.

[WA9SVD]

11 years of use from a PC is fantastic....however, it's about 7 years past needing to be replaced. I would not trust it to hold anything important, it's living on borrowed time. Unless your other PCs are in the same age group, you may run into trouble getting MS Money to even run. Microsoft discontinued support for MS Money in 2008.

Nice job on the power supply fix! I probably would have recycled the PC and found a replacement.

I agree that an 11 year old computer IS getting "long in the tooth," but much depends upon the health of the hard drive, and I suspect the HD has been replaced/upgraded along the way.
Whether the computer is 11 hours, 11 day, or 11 years old, the most important thing is to keep proper back ups. that's NOT just "data," but address book, "bookmarks (favorites in some browsers)" and copies of any programs that were downloaded along the way, and may not be available any longer.
The biggest problem with "elderly" computers is the lack of security updates for their OS, lack of support or availability of "anti-vurus" software, and processing speed is limited by both processor and memory. I still maintain a 15 year old Win 98 machine just to be able to use some photo slide scanning hardware, and as a backup for some old, old (but very important) e-mails. (Also stored on CD's.)