Is My 1 Gig of Memory More then Enough or Should I Double?

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Peachesbackwards

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I'm pretty happy with my HP M260N Media Center Computer which I've had for about 2 years. It does everything I want it to do. I use this computer for only the following: The Internet, Word Processing, Burning CDs/DVDs & downloading
music. I don't use the computer for gaming or graphics at all. It's an XP, Pentium 4 System, 120 Gig HD (I have about 105 gigs free right now), 1 Gig of Memory (maximum is 4). I have cable broadband service. My only peeves are while the internet is pretty fast I want it almost instantaneous which might not be possible with Cable Broadband & word sometimes takes 20 seconds to load up as well as Nero Burning Software & it seems to take a while for my computer to fully load up after I reboot. I've rarely had any crashes/freezes.

Given what I presented, is spending another say $200 or so to upgrade from 1 Gig to 2 Gigs of Memory, basically a waste of money as improvements won't be noticeable or something I should do for which I'd see noticable improvements. Thanks for any input.
 
You won't really see improvements so Id suggest you stick with your current setup for a little while longer.
 
1GB should be fine. I doubt adding more RAM would help that much. I mean seriously, right now, I'm only using 272MB RAM... Unless you have an incredibly high amount of processes running at once, you should be about the same...
 
I agree with the other 2 posters. You aren't really doing anything that would really benefit from having 2GB of RAM so getting it would be a waste.
 
yes reformats work veryt well. i do it every year or so. any thing that you dont know ya have will be erased and it will be like it just rolled off the assembly line
 
What is a Reformat?

Is a reformat basically putting your computer back to the factory settings you bought it at & thus you have to reinstall your programs & everything else, or is it something else? If it isn't the above, how do you do it? Thanks.
 
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