I added 512MB of RAM in my PC
I added a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Soundcard
I added an extra video card
I added another monitor to my PC.. so now I have dual monitors..

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Why didn't you get a better soundcard?

I just got a geforce 3

*jumps up and down*

santa cruz is a little better than the Audigy.

mhmm i have no idea what you're talking about

512 MB RAM is great!!!! Remember to turn off the windows swapfile.

Turning off the Windows swapfile is a bad idea, it causes the Windows memory management subsystem to act up a bit. You can however reduce it's size to say, 64 MB... And with a few tweaks force Windows to keep often used things in memory. Even with my 1024 MB of memory I still have a fairsized swap, 'cause Windows likes to stuff some things there.

also programs like phothsop NEED a swap file otherwise they won't function

at least not with my system

*kicks photoshop*

Photoshop requires loads of memory for graphical editing...

yeah....even with 512 it sometimes gives me a memory error message

or is that because i am burning a cd, downloading movies, and converting mp3's at the same time

Probably the latter.

So how exactly should you set the swap file? How much for Win98 And WinXP?

hmm...maby that should be a new thread...

windows xp

go to the control panel
select system

select the advanced tab, and there you select performance options.

you see a page file size, ..click change...and well select the min and max..select the drive..and click set

and your page file is set in win xp

can't remeber how i did it for win98, will look that up for you.
about the size there are no real standard for the size it kinda depends on your internal memory

most of the times i just double mine... so if i hav 512 int i make the page file 1024..

hope i have been helpful kinda. and maybe yeah...thhis should be a new thread.....

mod...oh moderaaatoooorrr?....moddie?..hello?

What i meant was how big should the swapfile be??? Double the amount of system memory you say??? Well, what happends if you set windows to do the job? Maby this is too advanced??..hmm...

don't let your computer think for themselves...that sucks

how much is your ram....the do that times 1.5 or 2...somewher ein between works fine

if you have enough ram you can turn it off, but as said above some programs simply need the damn swap file