I agree with RiceR46 that you need more RAM.

Go to the web site of popular RAM vendors such as kingston.com, pny.com, or crucial.com, 
enter your make and model number and you will be informed of exactly what kind of 
RAM you have and what is the max you can install.

If you live in the USA, it's been my experience that the best RAM prices are had 
when the big box electronics stores/office supply stores put your kind of RAM on 
sale and on rebate.

As a rule, a clean installation of XP is preferred over an installation which "upgrades" 
an already-installed verion of Windows to XP.  For best results, you should backup 
or copy off any and all files you want to save, then do a clean installation of XP.

If you visit the Dell support pages and enter your service tag or model name and 
number, you will be show a wealth of information about how to support your computer, 
and you will be able to download drivers and what is needed so that your older computer 
will work properly with XP.

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