well 512 MB is prolly what is choking the system down. 1GB is more to XP's liking. maybe you have lots of spyware, bloatware? those bog down ur system a lot.. regular defrag, running a low memory intensive background programs( stuff like norton takes over 40-50 MB, Itunes does the same- since the OS needs 200 MB atleast.. you can see how your running out of memory quickly- will slow down performance.. since your forcing windows to use disc caching/virtual mem. you might have a lot of temp files/ viruses? try running ccleaner/spybot.
Your specs sound OK to me. Not too shabby but not too fast either. Overall XP is a pretty fast OS, much quicker than vista. good luck with linux though
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owner of : atari 2600, commodore 64, NES,gameboy,atari lynx, genesis, saturn,neogeo,DC,PS2,GC,X360, Wii
5 THINGS I'd like to see before i knock out:
a. a AAA 3D sonic title
b. a nintendo developed game that has a "M rating"
c. redesgined PS controller
d. SEGA back in the console business
e. M$ out of the OS business
