1. More RAM will generally not help the computer to start any faster, since
Windows is loading from the hard drive at that point. The hard drive is the
limit here, not memory.

2. The swapfile is your virtual memory - what the computer uses in place of
real memory. Now that you've installed more memory the computer does not
need to use the swapfile, that's why it's smaller.

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wrote in message
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Hi, i have 128mb SDRAM on my machine. Yesterday, i
intsalled another 256MB, which now gives a total of 384MB
RAM. The system has recognised this RAM.

Should there be a difference in the speed of computer,
especially when it loads up? because i cant see that
difference.

what is the swapfile? before i instaled RAM, the swapfile
was always around 20MB, now i aint seen it go abobe 5MB.

regards