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What to do when you get "Virtual Memory Low"

If you are using Windows XP, try these steps:
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. In the System Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
3. In the Performance pane, click Settings.
4. In the Performance Options dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
5. In the Virtual memory pane, click Change.
6. Change the Initial size value and the Maximum size value to a higher value, click Set, and then click OK.
7. Click OK to close the Performance Options dialog box, and then click OK to close the System Properties dialog box.
This is besides emptying the cookies, temporary files, and a system cleanup.

Send-up and parody

The word send-up is also used to mean parody.
It also means a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule. It also means a feeble or ridiculous imitation.
Related word is take off. Webster says "an imitation especially in the way of caricature."

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