As far as I'm aware playing with the insides of a laptop is not for the faint of heart...better to take it to a relaible computer repair shop and get them to do it for you.
Installing new bits in a PC is easy, but laptops are a whole different thing. And even with more RAM a laptop will always run slower (considerably so) than the equivilent specs in a PC.
And it might not be the RAM, it could be that you have an older (slower) processor... again, ask at the computer shop (or shops, if you have the time...it doesn't hurt to get at least a couple of different quotes), they can advise you.
It might be simpler in the long run to backup the files you want to keep and get your hands on a copy of XP
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Installing new bits in a PC is easy, but laptops are a whole different thing. And even with more RAM a laptop will always run slower (considerably so) than the equivilent specs in a PC.
And it might not be the RAM, it could be that you have an older (slower) processor... again, ask at the computer shop (or shops, if you have the time...it doesn't hurt to get at least a couple of different quotes), they can advise you.
It might be simpler in the long run to backup the files you want to keep and get your hands on a copy of XP