On Fri, 5 May 2017 23:41:26 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Micky
writes:
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That leaves the bookmarks and url history, and I knew how to back up
Firefox, and I brought with me the bat file that copies them to
another drive, but I don't know the file names for Sea Monkey, that
I'm using now and which works a lot better in XP on a netbook that has
only 1gig RAM.
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Not that it is any reason not to be concerned about the HD and other
hardware, but can you easily double the RAM? When I bought this netbook
(towards the end of the XP era), it also came with only 1G, and (having
heard it was advisable) I bought a 2G stick at the same time. It was
some months before I got round to fitting it, and it seemed to make
little or no difference - but then Task Manager showed I was rarely
getting anywhere near 1G. As time has passed, usage _has_ gone up -
browsers being the main culprit, and I now _do_ exceed 1G a lot of the
time (have even passed the 2 very occasionally of late).

By golly, it will take 2G. This is the second computer for which I've
thought it had as much RAM as it could hold. I will look into what
fits it and what they sell when I get home.

Meanwhile, it has occurred to me that just before I started haiving
this startup problem, when shutting down the previous night, it
installed 6 XP updates. Is there any chance one of them has slowed
startup, and is there a place where the Uninstall files for them is
located?