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I\\u2019ll stop trying to book model shoots, I\\u2019ll stop taking my camera places, etc. The whole system shuts down.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"That would not do.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The main reason why I was at 2GB was because I was still running Windows XP because, at the time of my last rebuild, going 64 bit was a compatibility headache. But it\\u2019s been enough time and there are enough 64 bit machines out there that I have a pretty good chance that everything\\u2019s going to just plain work.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"So I plunked down some money\\u2026 not too much, just enough for a pair of new hard drives, a Windows 7 install disk, and some more memory\\u2026 and rebuild my desktop. Which, of course, takes a long long time to do because there\\u2019s not an \\u2018upgrade\\u2019 option available and I\\u2019ve got a lot of software and hardware to configure. 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