What does XP really need?

"ANGEL needs help" wrote:

It takes my new (2 months old) computer a long time to
boot up & load to the desk top. I was thinking it could
be too many programs loading at start up but I am an Win
ME expert and new to XP. I am skittish about making this
decision on my own. lol Please let me know what is
absolutely needed.

One thing Windows XP does like is RAM. Too many budget priced
systems are being sold with Windows XP and only 128 mb of RAM.

That is a very minimal amount of RAM for Windows XP and it pretty well
guarantees that there will be a considerable amount of memory paging
activity as Windows shuffles memory pages back and forth between RAM
and the swap file because of the inadequate RAM quantity.

So if you only have 128 mb of RAM then you should consider adding at
least another 128 mb of RAM and might want to give some thought to
making it another 256 mb instead.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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