I had to buy an external hard drive recently, because of issues that I had. I had to restore my computer several times. I would not download any games, right now, if I were you. That may have been part of the problem. You may have filled up your hard drive with those games. They do take up a lot of space on your hard drive. I've downloaded a couple of the kids games, after I restored my computer. Every time I did that (they were low memory games) I started having problems. Wait until you get the new hard drive and if you are going to put games on your computer, you may want to look into getting a bigger hard drive and adding RAM.