win xp sp3

Larry

Just wondering, is sp3 eating up all my ram or not. Since windows updated
it to my pc, The pc is painfully slow, (like 6 minutes to reach my desktop,
or is somthing else going on. On my disk space I still have 84% available.
The ram I have is just 520 mg, so this might the problem? Any advice
Thank you in advance Larry

Mike

520MB?!! Don't even think about it with less than 2GB

"Larry" <Larry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Just wondering, is sp3 eating up all my ram or not. Since windows
> updated
> it to my pc, The pc is painfully slow, (like 6 minutes to reach my
> desktop,
> or is somthing else going on. On my disk space I still have 84%
> available.
> The ram I have is just 520 mg, so this might the problem? Any advice
> Thank you in advance Larry

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Larry wrote:
> Just wondering, is sp3 eating up all my ram or not. Since windows
> updated
> it to my pc, The pc is painfully slow, (like 6 minutes to reach my
> desktop,
> or is somthing else going on. On my disk space I still have 84%
> available.
> The ram I have is just 520 mg, so this might the problem? Any advice
> Thank you in advance Larry

Tom [Pepper] Willett

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"Mike" <mike@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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: 520MB?!! Don't even think about it with less than 2GB
:
:

Bill Sharpe

Mike wrote:
> 520MB?!! Don't even think about it with less than 2GB
>
>
I installed SP3 on my six-year-old laptop with only 256 mb RAM. Yes,
it's slow starting -- but not nearly six minutes -- but once started
programs run just fine. I don't do much multitasking with this machine
-- but Office 2007 programs run reasonably well, one at a time.

Not surprisingly, SP3 installation took three times as long on the
laptop as it did on my desktop, which has 1 gb RAM

Bill