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Re: Dumpster Dell saga SUCCESS !!!!!!!!

 
 
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      07-21-2005
Joe Cougar, <>, whose name means "has right wing Nazi
tendencies; likes to watch his friends gang-bang his mother", exhorted:

> It used to take 10 minutes to get to my browser.If I opened a few
> programs everything would slow to a crawl and take 20 minutes to shut
> down.Everything reeeaaallly slow.


Everything you're saying is a dodge.

> Ran all kinds of spyware/virusware and removed LOTS but still slow.


All of a sudden.

> Then I read how low memory can make things slow and I found out how to
> check available RAM.


Format and reinstall.

> The result was like 30MB with nothing open.Plus I had gotten a
> couple of warnings that "Physical memory "was used up and that it was
> borrowing from hard disc.


Nothing to worry about.

> No biggie I thought.


Well, maybe you were mistaken.

> This model Dell (XP home) came with 128 Ram so I bought and installed an
> extra 256 and WHAT A DIFFERENCE!


You have spyware.

> Like a new computer now with everything snap and pop into place,no
> waiting 5,10 minutes for stuff to appear.


Format and reinstall.

> I checked my available memory with a load of programs open and I was
> using close to 300 MBs!


You really are a rat, you know?

> No wonder!


No rest for the wicked.

> I'm so happy I feel like telling the whole world to get more memory, Of
> course most people know something about computers and probably would have
> figured this out the first day.


You have spyware.

> Best........Joe C.


I know what I'm doing.

 
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