please Help Before Me Or The Machine Comit Suicide

I ve just acquired a brand new Dell CPx Laptop, Vintage Circa1998, so powerful that is 64mb/10gg. Guess I must be at least the proud 4th owner.

The only problem is its so slow that it does not run Word and Excel XP well, even when they are the only programs installed not counting Windows Media Player. also, I use this excellent machine to browse from  Starcom with magnificient results. I website per night.

I tried to reload windows, but the software could not boot the speed machine, I downloaded All the window updates, and now Windows alone is occupying 2 point something gig of the harddisk.

Question:

How do I make it run faster so my family would stop laughing at me?
please help before me or the Machine comit suicide.(One of us must kill the other, N60,000 is no joke).

No Long Things Pleeeese. You know I'm not YET a whiz.

Love to all Nairalanders.

Ur best bet is to browse d Dell website and look for the contact us. Write to them stating everything u r experiencin wit ur pc.
Thats wot i do when my pc 4ks up 2. and i get exelent results, though mine is Hp[Horse Power] Lol!

He can't! 
Dell does not produce calculators again!