Why does it take so long to open a project?

[Guest]

I recently started working with WMM on WindowXP. Why does it take so long to
open a project? Somewhere around half an hour.

 

[Guest]

How much RAM do you have? You will probably need to increase to at least
1GB. Or try closing down anything you may have running in the background
that is eating up resources.

Hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much for your reply.

Okay, I may reveal my ignorance here, but this is what it says under System
Properties:
Intel(R)
Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
2.79 GHz, 496 MB of RAM

What does this mean, do I have 2.79 Ghz or 496MB? I suspect I have a lot
because this comptuer is used to encode or record live video.

I have read somewhere about a bug regarding this, it has to do with my
working with avi files, but I can't find how to work around or fix it.

 

[Guest]

The 2.79 is the speed of your Central Processing Unit (CPU) and 496 is the
amount of Random Access Memory (RAM) you have installed. If you are running
Windows XP, then you really do need to increase the amount of RAM you have
installed. Windows XP recommends a minimum of 512MB of RAM to run
efficiently. Do you have a lot of icons sitting down in the area where your
clock is? If you do, those are running programs and are using up that 496MB
of RAM and could be why you have problems opening and working with Window
Movie Maker.

 

[Guest]

Is 5 icons a lot for the taskbar?

I will look into getting more RAM installed. But why did I not have this
problem before Windows XP was installed?