Recently my system has been running INCREDIBLY slow. I was totally unable to figure out the problem (after many scans and fixes and defraggings) until I looked at my system specs through the control panel. I KNOW my RAM is 256 mb but for some reason it is telling my I have 64 mb RAM and that is exactly how it is acting. Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Need more info than that. Did you recently change or upgrade the RAM? I've never heard of simply losing 192MB...are you sure it was ever recognized as 256MB? It sounds like you installed high-density RAM in a board that uses low density...that would account for 256MB being seen as 128MB. If you're running onboard graphics on top on that & have it set to share 64MB, that would bring the total down to 64MB. But that's just a wildazz guess ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

Jam is surely right about the density problem. I guess on a 750MHz system you're running SD Ram and there this is a quite usual problem. Some time ago they invented a new way of producing new SD Ram but the problem was that older boards might have problems with that new ram. Either they didn't recognise it at all or just every second bit effectivly halving the Ram size the system is able to see and to access. Are you sure you ever had it running with 256MB showing because in that case it's likely to be something else. Did you install an older bios lately. It's unlikely but possible to affect the recognized ram in that case too I think. The step from 128MB to 64MB is either a shared memory graphic ram set to 64MB or your running double sided ram (a ram stick with ram chips on both sides) on a ram slot that's only able to access single sided ram. That way only half of the ram will be accessable. Combined with the above high density problem that may effectively quarter your ram size! Check the manual of your mainboard because on that older SD Ram board it was possible that one or more ram slots had been single sided only! If you have onboard graphic also check the bios about the size of the allocated ram to the graphic card. That part of ram will no longer show up in the rest of the system!