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Old May 5th 17, 11:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Suddently takes 3 tries and 10 minutes to start-up winXP

In message , Micky
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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).
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