as its an older machine try xubuntu? http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ [g] -----Original Message----- From: Gareth France Sent: Friday, 30 May, 2014 07:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and xxxxxxxxxx