One other area you should check is what programs are being started when you boot that will use up memory and leave very little for anything else.

It takes a little investigation but, when I have done this for other folks, the performance improvement has been great.

Try the following:

http://www.windowsstartup.com/startupinspector.php

or

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

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