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I recently aquired a second T60, 1943 53u
Installed Windows XP, THinkpad drivers
It has 1 gig of ram
it run so much slower than my other t60
it seems like it accesses the hard drive A LOT

Any Ideas
THanks
Rich

System properties/performance/Virtual memory/ "System managed size" (reccomended 1521)

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name T60
System Manufacturer LENOVO
System Model 195243U
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12 GenuineIntel ~1828 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date LENOVO 79ETE5WW (2.25 ), 8/27/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name T60\User
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 324.94 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Do you have a battery installed in this new machine?

Unless there is something wrong on that Windows install, you should do no more than buy more ram. Morelike max it out. Now Windows is using around 700mb of 1gb leaving 300 left for others. That's way too little. Therefore it uses hardrive a lot.

It's very likely you have a hard drive with bad sectors. Normally when I run into this issue, that is the problem. Download the free trial of HD Tune, install it, then check under the Health tab. If the hard drive has a problem it will tell you what it is.