If your current computer was born around/before 2007:

1> Congratulashuns, you have a really old f***ing computer, you tight basterd. Mebbe you shoulda just bought a typewriter.

2>REALLY IMPORTANT STUFFZ!
That ancient piece of crap you're now using might be running Windows XP.
As tolded 2 me by an email from Dell, and confirmed by trolling threadz @ XKCD as well as our state-of-the-art computer tech help forum here @ 2+2:

WindowsXP Support ended on April 8, 2014

Yeah, thanks, dooshbag.

It might be possible to upgrade your existing machine to Windows 7 or 8.
If this fails, I'm afraid you'll hafta try to salvage as many of those scantily clad Asian pix and Dr. Spaceman artworx as u can, then set your old computer on fire and get a new one w/ the upgraded OS.
[Rumor has it that copies of the entire works of Dr. Spaceman, as well as some scantily clad Asian pix, and Checkraise's famous titty thread, are now stashed in a fireproof safe in the Louvre in Paris, France. Don't quote me on that, it's still unverified...]

No need to be alarmed, I saved all my images in a folder on my new computer that runs Windows ME. That's Millennium Edition, for you non-techies. My computer man said it's the top of the line edition, and I trust him because he's 1/4 Indian.

Why would I want to change from XP
?
Its the only OS that Microsoft made since DOS 5.0 that worked
.

I downloaded Zorin(Linux) on to a DVD and booted it the day before XP was stopped from getting security updates. Free OS :-)))

My computer forged in the fires of Olympus
Win 8.1 pro
Hardly ever turn it on, so couldn't say if that's a good OS.

Free spike420211!

I just use the computers at the library, they're definitely post 2012 though!

Thought you never left home.