14 sounds excessive, and every one of them is a program that loads on boot. The biggest problem with store bought laptops with a pre-installed OS is they install a bunch of crap you probably don't want, and install it with defaults.... and programmers LOVE to have their program start on boot.
The trick is to identify the ones you don't want started at boot time. Office and messengers are good bets to turn off, you can start them manually when you need them.
And yes, 2G of ram is what most geeks consider the minimum when it comes to Vista.
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The trick is to identify the ones you don't want started at boot time. Office and messengers are good bets to turn off, you can start them manually when you need them.
And yes, 2G of ram is what most geeks consider the minimum when it comes to Vista.