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12.  Turn off fancy desktop backgrounds, screensavers, and the Hibernation Feature. 

Turn off fancy desktop backgrounds, and screensavers.  Elaborate background pictures and fancy screensavers can take up an enormous amount memory.  These operations can be done by right clicking on a blank part of your Desktop and choosing "Properties."  Go to the Desktop Tab and set the Background to "None."  On the screensaver Tab, set the Screensaver to "None."

To turn off the Hibernation feature: Right Click on your Desktop -> choose Properties -> Click on the Screen Saver Tab -> Click on the Power Button in the lower right corner -> Click on the Hibernate Tab -> Uncheck "Enable hibernation".