Your amount RAM isn't the problem. 256 Mb of RAM works fine for me. It IS slow, and I can't multi-task. But as Djeser said, that's normal. In addition to what the others have suggested you might want to clear out some more hard drive space. Since your don't have much RAM Vue will rely on your hard drive a lot more. This is one reason for the slowness. Run a good RAM diagnostic to make sure all of your memory is working right. A good portion of the errors people have reported when running Vue 4 Pro have been traced to bad memory locations in high memory that aren't usually used by other programs.