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winXP memory question

Sunny129

Sunny129

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ok...my sister's computer was recently upgraded from win98 to winXP. after the upgrade, her system reaction time seems to have slowed down to an unacceptable rate. it takes upwards of a minute to open applications. it even takes several seconds to right click on a file and look at its properties (and when i say several seconds, i mean over 10). now theoretically, such an operation should take only milliseconds to execute...maybe a full second or two if the hard drive was turned off due to energy-saving settings and needs to spin up. anyways, i take a look at her computer and notice that it only has 64MB of PC133 RAM. i go on to hear that operating systems these days use up more and more memory, one of the most memory consuming systems being winXP. is this true to the severity of the problem i'm explaining? could such a low amount of RAM be the cause of such a slow running system?

also, i'd like to know if memory speed is of any consequence when using winXP. my brother wants to reformat and install winXP also. he has 256MB of PC100 RAM. i know PC100 is quite outdated as far as memory technology has come, but will the memory bus of 100MHz keep winXP from running smoothly, or is it strictly a matter of how much RAM, and not how fast?

EDIT: oh yeah, how do i reformat a drive with winXP currently installed on it? i'm not sure how to create a startup disk, or how to restart in DOS mode. thanks, eric...
 
64MB is the absolute minimum you can run an XP machine on. I suggest you upgrade her to 256MB or more. It should run fairly smooth then. I've got 256MB in my PIII 500 and it runs pretty good.

For your next question if you've got PC100 in there now you probably can't go to PC133 and definetly not to DDR or RDRAM. The motherboard defines what kind of memory is needed.
 
Bring up the task Manager (Right click on the Task Bar and select Task Manager). Go to the Performance tab, and look at the
PF Usage, and the Page File Usage History. You can also see down below the Physical Memory & Kernel Memory. These will tell you
what's going on. If your PF Usage is greater than your Physical Memory, then you are probably operating in swap mode, and
should think about augmenting the physical RAM in the system.
 
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