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Article #47Re: Helping a friend with their imac: installing software??
From: Adrian
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:55
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:55
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spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote: > Thanks. I'm going to update her netscape to 7.02, as just about anything > is better with modern sites than netscape 4.x. I think I'll *try* to > import her mail and address book from the old outlook express into > netscape so she doesn't have to keep fiddling with multiple programs, > but then again, I might just leave well enough alone. The old outlook > express she's using seems to suit her well enough. It's the browsers > that are VERY problematic. I would leave Outlook Express alone. Unless your friend is very low on RAM there is no problem running 2 applications. Are you aware that you can manually alter the amount of RAM which the system allocates to the applications in use? Browsers benefit from having plenty of RAM available. -- Adrian
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