Windows 2000 does what any window system does and that is create vertual memory space on the drive when there isn't enough to run in RAM. Regards. Kulvinder Singh Bhogal Skypename: bobba2006 Windows messenger: Kulvinder@xxxxxxxx Mobile: 07792888797 ----- Original Message ----- From: Eleanor Burke To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:59 PM Subject: [access-uk] Memory usage on Laptop I want to check up on how memory is being used on my very old laptop running Windows 2000. As it only has 256 MB RAM I do not want to overstretch it!!!! Eleanor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1298 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message.