Where are you viewing ram specs.In xp,even if every program ram at
1 time,you'd still show same amount of ram installed,the value doesnt
fluxuate.If youre looking in task mgr,chk running .exe applications,write
them down,then go to search in my computer,see what all is running,shut
down un needed.

"Dan" wrote:

> Ijust upgraded from Windows ME to Windows XP Home and I have 1024mb Ram.
> When I went into system information I was running about 667 mb ram in
> availble system memory. When I reloaded Norton Internet Security and Virus
> Protection with the updates I still registered 667 mb ram. But when I did my
> Windows XP updates and updated my printer drivers now I am down to 105 mb
> ram. How did this happen and how do I fix it. I though 1024 mb of ram would
> be plenty to run Win XP, I did not know it was a memory hog. Please help.
> Thanks
> Dan