the3dgm

@e_g_180 here is something for you to try, press Ctrl-Alt-Del (at the same time of course) Select 'Processes' at the bottom of the little box on the right hand side there are two numbers write down the first one, the smaller of the two, and subtract that from your Physcial Ram. This will give you an idea of what you have for ram to run additional programs. If you don't have a virus program or firewall or Quicktime, etc. You may have a very small number of processes running and a good amount of ram available to your programs. Most systems I've seen, when people bring me their systems for repair, etc., have between 30 and 50 processes running at idle. You may have more or less on somewhere in between. I looked at my laptop and it has WinHome on it also and it reports Physcial Ram not Useable ram also.

@Warrior NO! However, it does need 2 gigs to run well and will only address a max of just over 3 gigs.

I'm sure you don't believe me so you may want to check a few articles on Vista, I've hardly read one that doesn't recommend a minimum of two gigs if you have anything other than Vista Basic. Also, you might notice that more and more systems are coming out with 2 or 3 gigs of ram if the operating system is Vista. They are not doing this because they like you! LOL