Do I need to Upgrade My PC?

Here is what I have;

I bought a Dell Dimension E510 in April 2006.

It came with Windows XP

80BG Hard Drive (have 45GB left)

300Ghz Pentium 4 Processor w/ Hyper Thread

512 MB Memeory

The CD-RW drive is sh*t already, I am wanting to replace it but not sure what to get... I want a DVD-RW/CD-RW Burner combo, if any one has any ideas.

I have added a Radeon 256mb 9250 Graphics card.

I have a lot of Music and photos on the computer and Ages of Empires 3 is one of the biggest added programs on it.

I am wanting to make the computer run faster. It is surprisingly slow. I am currently trying to upgrade my virus protection and anti-Spyware protection.

I am not sure how to get programs out of the start-up folder, it would be great to have help with that, because it is so slow at start-up and shut down.

If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appriciated. Thank you.

Do I need to Upgrade My PC?avast

The best thing you can do is get some more memory. 512 more would be good, just make sure you get the right kind for your machine.

To stop certain things from starting, click on Start, then Run, then type msconfig. Goto the startup tab and uncheck anything you do not want to run at startup. The best way to really get rid of this stuff is thru regedit but you would want to look at some online guides for that.