i'd say unless its a word that likely to be found in a wordlist forget about it. brute forcing a 20+ character password could easily take years, add numbers, case and symbols and it aint gonna be cracked any time this millenium unless you're lucky and its using characters from lower down the list
personlly, i dont think ie will get back all its market share. its name is mud, and i think to so much an extent that it will be a very hard and long process to get it back, all the time, people will be moving over to firefox
im guessing that if you have a large number of computers that you are on some kind of network maybe you could create an image, boot from a floppy and install the image over the network?
like said before, a bigger page file will increase fragmentation also, hard drive is slower than ram, so you will loose some speed no point having a page file much bigger than 1gb