Originally Posted by Saab Dastard
CJ,
I know what you mean - OS and application bloatware expands to fill the cpu cycles, RAM and HD improvements.
I don't really want to go off-topic here, since so much the advice is useful.
But you're right.... there should be a corollary to Moore's law... "Windows software always bloats faster than CPU/RAM/HD capacity, hence Windows has slowed down PCs ever since its introduction". Would be a good discussion on JetBlast, no?
Still, the single most important addition you can make is to add RAM. Actually I'm surprised you get a usable XP system at all with 128MB!
It works, but you're right.
Getting some more RAM, up to the physical limit, should eliminate most, if not all, of the "Not enough virtual memory" messages I do get, and should cut down on the HD accesses.
So maybe that should be the first priority?
OK... Dell Optiplex GX110. 128M of RAM actually. Seems that Kingston is a good address for more RAM, but open to any other good ideas?
CJ