Yes adding memory is very easy. First you need to check your computer manual or Google and find out how much it can take. Then decide how much memory you would like and the price of course. I included the Crucial link below, it can scan your computer and recommend the right type and size of memory for you. You do not have to buy Crucial although it is good stuff. Installing more RAM is a simple task. The secret is not to be overwhelmed by what you see once the cover is removed and staying calm. If you get nervous just walk away for a few minutes and try later. Here is a tutorial on how to do it. The one difference I have is to tell you to please remove the power cord from the rear after you shut down. That tutorial is older I suspect, in those days switching off was good. Not any more as the newer motherboard continue to get power even after you switch off - if indeed you have a switch any more. Always rest a bare arm or hand on the metal of the case to ground yourself when working inside. This is not to protect you but to protect the delicate electronic parts inside. Wow! On the hard drive you definitely need to get 5 gigs or more of free space to run anywhere near normal. Don't forget, you can burn some of your data to CDs or DVDs to create more space on the hard drive. DVDs are only pennies these days, as long as you have a DVD burner. If not then use your CD burner to save some data. Here is a link that might be useful: Crucial memory (RAM) scanner

camp56, damccoy,ravencajun, and stargazzer, Thank you for the quick responses. Below are my answers to the questions you have asked. The browser is IE8. The version I downloaded yesterday was Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX. I uninstalled it, and downloaded and installed it again. Using START> Control Panel>Programs and Features I confirmed what I re-downloaded was Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX. The system I have is 32 bit. After downloading and installation, I still could not see any animation. I went to the sites that ravencajun suggested, went on YouTube too, saw nothing but the same dreadful messages " You don't have current Adobe Flash Player", or "cannot find Adobe Flash Player". I have not try Safe Mode yet. Will it help? How can I get to it? Thank you again for the help.

ammysrq: Soonish did mean this spring but we're not ready, probably next spring. We live in what most people would consider the boonies although we do live on a road with multiple houses on it, none of which has been on the market recently. Not a development kind of thing. annie1971: Good point, got any suggestions :) Thank you both for taking the time to read my post and then responding.

Thank you all for your very insightful comments. Davidro �� We are reframing the entire area, so the pantry framing is completely up to us. Our approved plans do show a pantry but my GC says that as long as I figure it out by next week when we do the framing, we have some flexibility. The vent pipes and the electrical is the same.. all will depend on what we end up doing. Only limitation on electrical is that there will be no cans. Our ceiling is low and has wood planks and beams that we plan to keep. We are adding 2 new skylights (see the X near the clean-up sink and the cooktops). I am thinking something similar to this GW classic Spanish kitchen with school house flush mounts, pendants over sink s and a modest pendant over the banquette area The question of Pantry --> I added the pantry to the plan to see if we can reduce the cost of cabinetry and add some long-term grocery/ appliance storage. The original idea was to basically make this back to back cabinets. The galley kitchen would then end in a "L" here with the short leg facing the kitchen and another set of cabinets facing the corridor (for other household storage). The side facing the kitchen could have the fridge and the ovens (an appliance wall?). We gave up on that as the pantry seemed more optimal but the discussion now about choppy counters makes me rethink that. I love Dean1's neo-angle pantry as well (in fact pinged him a couple of times to ask to see the inside). The only thing on the oven is that I do want it to be ergonomically a good height for me. I am 5' tall and wanted the 27" gagg convection mounted lower and the 24" gagg combi mounted above so that I can peek into the combi at the eye-level. So it would be a deepish drawer with the ovens above and some storage above. Pllog --> I completely agree on the prep sink position. I am not happy. I thought about moving it after the cooktop area across the fridge. That may work as the filtered water will be at the prep sink but was concerned about people dropping clean-up things in the prep sink. That would be a big ��ick�� factor for me. The nice thing about this sink is that it has a built in cutting board that sits flush with the counter.. so the extending the countertop idea works. I actually did this based on feedback from you and Davidro in the appliance forum thread a while ago. Bmorepanic �� Thank you so much for the reality check on the pantry. I need to mock up the pantry layout physically per your email and see how it works.. I realized I am more visual/ kinesthetic than verbal as part of my remodeling education �� Here are the full house layout (sorry for the small size fonts.. Only way I could make it fit ). As you can see, the house kind of wraps around the patio/courtyard behind the kitchen with doors from the kitchen, family room and the master. Picture of the current kitchen with the ceiling plants and beam standing from where the pantry is shown in the plan.(pardon the crappy cellphone photo. There adobe brick wall you see at the end near the french door will be modified to add a window with a seat for the banquette. All that brick you see currently jutting into the aisle is gone. The courtyard showing the French doors and the dutch door from the kitchen and the French doors from the family room.