SaintK

Thanks guys. I didn't realize this amount of slowness is normal behavior for vista. I saw an XP beta run awhile back and it wasn't this bad...and it wasn't on a monster machine either. Well I'll try running again when my memory shows up,hopefully it helps Oh an another thing...so I tried running win xp the other day to take care of some day to day stuff but it wouldn't boot! Finally figured out that I don't have 2 partitions and vista was installed on the same partition as xp!! I swear I thought I had 2 but I don't know what happened. Is there any way to get XP to boot or is a total HD swipe and fresh install of XP the only option?

5270 build is running my laptop crazy! Well Vista works on my Toshiba M50, but the installation took about 6 hrs and my HD is CONSTANTLY running, unless I don't open any programs for awhile. Everytime I open a program or something HD doesn't stop working for awhile and is extremely slow to open. I'm thinking it's my RAM (I only have 256mb eek!). 2.0Ghz Centrino, and 100gb 5400rpm. I ran the task manager and looked at my process usuage and it seems my CPU usage is fine (spikes up to 70% max with usually running in the 10% -40% range), but my paging files are almost maxed out at ~650mb. So therefore my thinking as to why I RAM is the culprit and probably the only one. Any thoughts? Do you guys think the memory is the only bottleneck here? Thanks for your help!