You won't notice a huge speed difference, just that you'll be able to open many more things at once before it's starts to slow down or act flaky.


Think of the memory in your computer like your desk, size particularly, you had a kids size desk so you could only open a few pages of paperwork at a time. Once it filled up you had to move some to the floor (page file). Now to get to anything you placed on the floor you have to move something off your desk so you can move it up from the floor.
Now you have a big full sized desk, so you can have that much more stuff out before it fills up.
Thats the basics of computer memory and the page or swap file process. (in my version of talking to non geeks).

As far as limitiations, think of it as the length of your arm, you can only reach across the desk so far.



Technically XP can use up to about 4 gig, but there's a lot of if's in there.
You loose some to video cards, misc junk etc, but somewhere between 2 and 3 gig available is nice.

Glag you got things resolved, and BB took care of you.

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