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XP Laptop performance degrades with 4mb RAM over 2mb RAM, why ?

Asked by williampeck in Windows XP Operating System, Memory Boosters, PC Laptops

Tags: IBM, laptops, memory

About a month ago, I get an extra 2mb RAM for my laptop which already had 2mb RAM. Because the laptop runs XP Pro, it can only recognize 3mb RAM, see attachment. It is an IBM T61p

My system runs usually no less than 1.3 mb Phys Mem, usually around 1.5mb.

However, the performance of my PC is significantly worse than before !

I thought I would get used to it and things would work out but it's been very consistently worse.

Before I got the upgrade, I would have 15 - 20 windows open, and the Phys Mem would run at around .6mb to 1.1mb.

Now, I only get around 10 - 12 windows open, despite having the 1.5mb Phys Mem avail.

The focal point seems to be Internet Explorer. Usually if I try something and it doesn't work, I'll shut down IE and then my function works. This is very consistent. I definitely cannot have more than one IE window open (IE-7)

I am a software developer so I have a variety of tools that I use and 15 - 20 windows is normal for me.

The 4mb phys mem where only 3mb is recognized doesn't seem to be able to handle the memory management.

What do you think ?

Desktop people here have tweaked various configuration items and they're ready to take it back to 2mb RAM - as am I

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