Sister gave me an old Apple iMac and it desperately needs a good wipe of the ol hard drive but I have no idea what so ever how to go about it.  I have no disks with it, so can't bleach it or I wont have an operating system.  Would be great if I could just put Windows on it, though probably not Vista...thing is slow enough as it is   Not even sure what version of Windows would even be a good choice.  Not even sure how to access the system specs on this thing...haven't even figured out how to get my internet working on it for that matter  

Would be nice to have it working, especially if Windows could replace the Mac system.  Use it to dump all the misc. crap onto and spare this ones hard drive.

Not totally lost when it comes to Macs...had to use them when I switched schools...but I've been out of there for nearly 4 years and haven't touched a Mac since...plus school computers I never learned anything about their programing

So if anyone has some ideas to get this thing running nicely I'd love to hear them...just slower then molasses right now with all the junk on it

Took a little bit...some kinda glitch causing the mouse to act up, didn't have that earlier...tried 3 different ones to the same issue.  Every time I click on a menu or icon it just starts rapidly scrolling through them all...strange

Specs...
OSX Version 10.3.9
400MHz PowerPC G3
512MB SDRAM.
8MB AGP graphics card.

Defiantly not going to be a work horse...not even close.   But for storage purposes it will work fine till I can get a laptop.  Plus be able to browse the internet when this ones tied up.  Just need to clean it up...right now its only got around 4.5GB left on the hard drive...not even sure how big the drive is, may not be more then picture/small document storage at this point   Hopefully can at least get it running smoothly and open up some space...though I doubt there is much.  Even if it remains the Mac operating system I still have to figure out if there's a way to wipe it clean and start fresh

I do have a couple old hard drives somewhere that are in the 40GB range...but replacing the current hard drive would mean loosing the operating system which could be a major problem   Probably not even compatible or easy to install so not a good idea to even try