Rick,
    I'll give that a try. Thanks....

Randy L.

"RichK" <NOSPAM@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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>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.
>>
>