I believe that the recommended page file size is 1.5 times the amount of 
system memory.  You don't need to change anything in the BIOS.  Go to system 
under the control panel.  Select the advanced tab, and click on settings 
under performance.  Select the advanced tab.  The bottom item is virtual 
memory; select change.  You might want to select "system managed size", or 
you can configure it yourself.  How the system performs when you go from 
500MB to 2GB depends on what you are running.  If you are doing email and 
word processing, there should be almost no difference, as long as you have 
the paging file set correctly.  If you are using Photoshop to edit huge 
pictures or some other memory-intensive application, you should see a great 
improvement.

"RandyL" <rlink"nospam"@cableone.net> wrote in message 
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>    I own a Toshiba Satellite P35-S6112 notebook computer running Win XP 
> Home SP2, and I recently increased the memory from 512 megs of RAM to 
> 2-gigs of RAM. I checked in Control Panel, and it does indicate that I 
> indeed have 2 gigabytes installed. However, if anything the computer seems 
> to be running slower now. My question is: do I need to go into the system 
> BIOS and change that also to specify 2 gigs of RAM? Also, would it help to 
> change the virtual memory settings and performance options now that I have 
> more system RAM? Right now the virtual memory total paging file size is 
> set to 627 meb. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...
>
> Randy L.
>