But then again, I'd recommend vista if you have better specs.

Use English. it depends on how much time you sped on it. You also need to research site that are phishing and add them to your black list

mine is earth worm jim and CD man

I'd recommend XP for that amount of RAM.

Totally true! nothing is impossible except doing the impossible.

it runs on linux though...

You mean something like a Virtual PC... like this:?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Check this link out:

http://monitoring-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Commercial products are usually top on the list, but you have to see which you are comparing to.

Some freewares beat commercial products.

Sun Constellation Linux Cluster - Currently The World's Fastest Computer! - Supercomputer

Number of Processing Cores: 62,976

Check this link out, it is the best:

http://tinyurl.com/47sgdc
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There are softwares out there to crack passwords created by compressing software, but it requires a lot of time to crack the passwords, what's more the success rate of cracking the password is low.
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