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Bill W said:
I have 256 RAM now with an Athlon XP Processor, if I double to
512m
will I get better speeds with my XP Home Edition?
I use mostly for intrenet and pics from my digital camera.
and of course email.
There's no simple answer to this question. How much memory you
need depends on what apps you run, but almost everyone needs at
least 256MB for decent performance. For some people, for example
those who edit large photographic images, more than 256MB--even
much more--can be required for good performance.
If you are currently using the page file significantly, more
memory will decrease or eliminate that usage, and improve your
performance. If you are not using the page file significantly,
more memory will do nothing for you. When you say "pics from my
digital camera," assming that you mean looking at them, not
editing them, my *guess* is that adding RAM will do little, if
anything, for you.
But go to
http://billsway.com/notes_public/winxp_tweaks/ and
download WinXP-2K_Pagefile.zip and monitor your pagefile usage.
That should give you a good idea of whether more memory can help,
and if so, how much more.