How much RAM does XP need? 
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 10:50 AM



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Today is Wednesday, March 28

Today in 
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain
1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts 
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1799 New York State abolished slavery
1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks
1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US 
1854 During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1866 1st ambulance goes into service 
1885 US Salvation Army officially organized 
1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities 
1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down 
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco 
1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
1942 234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck
1994 Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election 
1995 World's largest banks-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge 
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The bull, puzzled by a lack of fear, nudged the blind 
farmer in the back. 
The farmer turned very quickly, caught the bull by the 
horns and threw him to the ground with a thump that left 
it breathless. 

"Goodness!" said the neighbor, "I never knew you were 
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>From Brent
Last week my wife and I purchased a new computer. 
We ran into some difficulties while setting it up so we 
decided to call the customer support phone number 
we found in the manual.

I picked up the phone and called the number. A man 
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He began rattling off computer jargon. This confused 
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as  if I were a small child?"

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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD to

Michael Gorneau, 46

Man pocket dials 911 while stealing

A Connecticut man accidentally called 911 on his cell phone 
while he was allegedly stealing 700 pounds of scrap metal 
from a local business Thursday.

Police initially thought the call was a medical emergency, 
since they could only hear rustling in the background before 
the call disconnected, according to Southington Patch.

But once identified the caller's location using GPS, they 
arrived at the scene to find Michael Gorneau, 46, had 
transferred the metal from a local business's dumpster 
into his pick-up truck.

Gorneau accidentally called 911 while crawling under 
a fence, police told Southington Patch. They initially 
thought the call might be a medical emergency, since 
they could only hear rustling in the background.

The metal belonged to a company that makes metal 
doors, NBC Connecticut reported. Far from being 
trash, it's generally sold to help pay for the employees' 
benefits.

Gorneau was charged with third-degree trespassing 
and sixth-degree larceny larceny. He was released
from jail on $5,000 bond, and is scheduled to appear 
in court on April 2.



Tech Support Pits:

From: Bill
Re: How much memory for XP ?

Dear Webby,
One of my home computers is a Dell running Windows XP 
Professional.  I have 1G memory.  Browsers seem to crash 
fairly often, Firefox and Chrome.  I suspect they run into 
memory problems when several tabs, not many, are open.  

Before I get more memory, I wonder if the rather massive 
number of things that load at start-up might be a problem,  
Since I don't know what they all do. Is there somewhere 
I can find out what is essential and what I can forgo?   
I am sending this message using Netscape Navigator 9 
which seems not to have that problem. 
-- 
Wm W. P.

Dear Bill
1 GB is not really enough for nowadays. Be a big spender 
and get another MB.

To sort out what starts up I use StartupCop from PC Magazine.
It costs $8, but is well worth it.

It lets you disable unwanted stuff and does a fair job explaining 
what each item does.
You should still get that second MB of RAM from DELL or 
TigerDirect, but StartupCop will help to eliminate unwanted or 
obsolete stuff and generally clean things up.

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