Hi,
I have a program called tune up utilities and it reccomends system optimizations for computers.
For mine it has said:

"If your computer has 256mb of RAM or more, paging of the system kernal can be disabled to boost system performance."

and

"Disable universal plug and play (UPnP) the UPnP is a potential security risk and should be disabled."

I know that plug and play is used for USB devices and mouses. Other than that I have no idea about what these things are and whether they should be disabled.
Should I let it disable them?

Thanks, Jake

nope and nope. The paging of the system kernal would, most likely, improve performance, but you would be MUCH better suited at just buying another stick of 256 ram, to get to 512. XP likes 512; it will run all day on 256, but it just likes 512. By forcing your kernel to stay in ram, you will be forcing other stuff to load into the page file, which in turn could actually slow your system down.

And you are correct about the UPNP. No reason to disable that.

FWIW, see if you get a matching stick of 256 (to match it, download everest from my sig and install it; it will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your machine) and write down Click on computer > summary, and under memory you should see something like:

Field Value
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)


Then just go match that (the pc3200 ddr sdram part).

hope that helps....

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@valis: The PC slots are full

My PC: 2x512mb PC3200

Yeah thanks for the info on those things. XP runs great with 1gb

Jake

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grab a daughterboard....

Where do you get them & do they work well?
If I get one then I could add 1gb ram. But my motherboard says it can only support 2gigs of RAM - is this still possible ??

Thanks, Jake