dell III-800 notebook very slow

[eshort]

issue: slow PIII 800 notebook
installed: win x sp3- w/latyest udates
equipment: Dell X200 notebook (PIII-800, 256 ram, 40gb hdd)
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any way to speed this machine up--takes 4 minutes to boot (to desktop)..hdd thrashing..i know 256 is a bit low for ram but other machines have run fine with same setup--winx just freshly installed.,removed several startup programs (via ms config) and set paging file to 356-356 mb. no viruses. maybe its thye xp udates?...if so--how do i remove them??

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thanx.

[EzyStvy]

256 megs of ram is more then a bit slow....I'd let Windows manage the pagefile.

[eshort]

TX

took of avg anti-virus--heled a bit but still slow..wil chang to windows managed pagefile and try again. wonder if its the sp-3 updates???? they r not individually listed under "add-remove programs" (control panel)--so how can i remove them?

where wld be a good place to find (old) 144 pin pc100 ram (516 mb) for this notebook?

[glc]

http://www.memoryx.net/latitudex200.html

If you are going to manually manage the pagefile, set it to 3x the system ram.