This may well be your problem. Are you able to upgrade the system to at least double the RAM? XP runs on less RAM than VISTA which I'm using but I have 3 GIGs of RAM for VISTA and if I remember correctly I used to run XP on 1 GIG RAM. 256 is barely adequate (if that) these days. Joan In a message dated 12/16/2010 12:57:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Is this the same as "total physical memory"? If so, I am 256MB. I have lots of "stuff" on my computer. Thanks.