About six month old, the OS is XP.
the programs are MSOffice, Adobe Professional, Adobe Photoshop, Civ 4, browser is firefox, mail is thunderbird.
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When you say impossible what happend? Did the computer lock up or did the other software just not run? Give us as much detail as you can...Have you tried re-installing FAH? (I've got to step out for part of the day, others may jump in to help troubleshoot for you. )