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Originally Posted by Can't Know
A gig is nothing for XP/SP3. Emachines were also known for not using the best hardware anyway and the mainboard is probably sharing your system ram with the video graphics, further reducing what is available.
Take a look at the performance monitor (task manager) and see what is in use.
In addition to more ram, a dedicated video card (with its own ram) will improve performance.
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Task Manager shows spikes of " idle tasks" or some similar wording. But nothing else.
Removed a bunch of old stuff the other day, and defragged. It was at 22% fragmented. No change noticed.