pops just bought an old ass laptop, i want to help

[LuckyTxGuy]

Please do not take offense to the following comments.

Your dad just bought a piece of electronics that is not good for much of anything besides maybe a boat anchor.lol Seriously, what you've found out about the expensive RAM is the whole problem. It's too old to upgrade because the parts are too expensive and with an old sloooow processor and very little RAM, what you see is what you get for the most part.

I'd say for web browsing, it's about as fast as it's gonna get. I'd advise disabling most everything you can from starting up automatically. In XP that can be done by going to Start > Run > MSCONFIG. I think MSCONFIG is an option in 2000 too.