i have pentium 3 550 proccesor 128 ram but i think my pc si slow because i have alot of startup items but i need all this items if i buy another 128 ram will it make difference or not?

Startup items will slow you down, however I think that at least 384mb's of ram is more what Win.ME needs to run smooth. I have 512mb's of ram, but that may be a little overkill for the way I use my computer. I think you will see a marked increase in speed with added ram. Check out crucial.com for fairly good prices. Cheers! HAL 8000

I don't think the extra ram will do that much for you. It may help a bit but is not the cure. You most probably have full time antivirus running. If you get rid of that, you will free up a ton of cpu time and your system will run much faster. What else do have in startup? Most probably a lot of what you say you really need, you don't.

i agree with eric, ram has little to do with it. your system is better than mine (k6/2-500 128meg ram) and mine runs ME faultlessly. 128 is plenty for ME but we can always use more,can't we? ME will use as much ram as you want to throw at it up 512megs so where do we stop?

Quote from cindy: "but i need all this items" /Quote You can run all of those programs from start>>programs. It is absolutly not necessary to have them running upon boot and always resident in Memory. What's happening right now is that they are starting upon boot up, loading themselves up into memory and staying there the entire time you are running your computer. This will eat your resources and slow you down considerably. If you configure these programs to not start upon boot, either from their options or from msconfig, the only thing you will lose is a couple of seconds for the program to load into memory when you actually open the program.

I reckon the RAM with speed it up a bunch and all, but for the startup stuff, i agree with the dude above me. run them from explorer or start menu. if u have OSA (office startup agent) in there, get rid of it, as it is quite useless, and sucks up loads of resources. u might as well get a faster HDD or CPU as well. btw, does win98 have the same slowdown with those startup items??