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256 is more than enough to run the programs he listed. Infact, its enough to run three instances of all those programs at the same time.
Seems like something is eating up your memory or 2) your windows has gone haywire. XP has a half life of about 9 months after which it starts acting up.
It could easily be a virus/trojan using all your memory. Rundll32 is a legit windows file, but its used by several viruses, trojans and spywares as well. Do the following to see what rundll32 is executing:
Press Start, run, then type msconfig and press enter. A window should open up. Click the "startup" tag at the right corner and see what program is using Rundll32.
Alternatively, if you cant go through the hassle of checking what rundll32 is executing, just press ctrl+alt+del and terminate the rundll32 process. See if this frees up your memory.
You could also format your computer and reinstall everything 
Good luck.
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I think its natural. Exactly the same thing used to happen to me when i had my 1.4 Athlon 256 ram with ME. I was cursing everyone who signed in at messenger.
Also Partypoker has the most shitty software. Its heavy with those cartoon faces, that why they allow only 4 tables. It still crashes at my new P4 3GHz 512 ram when i have many things open.
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a normal win xp takes about 128mb ram alone. add a couple of programs and you need 256 but you should be fine with it as long as you don't push it.
i just tested a couple of programs: bw takes about 25mb right after startup, winamp 20 (more while it's loading tracks), emule 50...
guess you should really have 512mb if you don't want to have to care about it. btw most of the problems you mentioned are a result of the time you already use this system. windows is not designed to run forever. especially if you already did stuff like replacing your rundll32.exe, installing/uninstalling/reinstalling software, changing settings etc etc. i advise you to reinstall windows, afaik you can even do that without formatting although formatting would be better because you will keep a lot of shit on your pc if you don't. either you go through the hassle of doing that or you will once have a non-bootable system and you'll have a lot more trouble saving your stuff then...
oh, bad software can of course also provoke stuff like that. but like every crash harms your windows as well so the above still applies. have you got the newest version of your programs? tried googling for specific error messages you get? i'm sure if there are more users who had that white text error you will find a solution somewhere on the internet.
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most populard advice and i think most effective.. add ram
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Yeah, I have exactly the same problem as Veg. :O
I'm running Windows 98 on a P3 866 with 384 mb ram and it fucks up multiple times per day, pretty annoying.
I just figure it's cause I haven't formatted and stuff in ages, Windows tends to fuck itself up after a while.
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You probably have the page file disabled. Enable it back!
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i did the msconfig startup thing
heres whats using rundll32:
LoadPowerProfile
NvCplDaemon
NvMediaCenter
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I had the exact same problem Veg, and when i used Norton to take a look at my computer. It found some of those new fancy viruses wich plants in your memory and eats it all up. So i called a friend of mine who is one of those little geeks. And he told me that people have started to implement old real destructiv virus codes into new viruses. And these little buggers where really hard to get away.
I think i formated my computer like 10 times, before i got rid of it. If its really gone now. Atleast my computer doesnt crash like it did.
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to some of you guys using XP: run services.msc
If you never touched it, there should be a lot of stuff there that you don't need...
go here: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm ,
just don't mess with the settings you are not sure... or set them to manual...
also, there's that system restoration thing... just turn it off...
I always have like 10 ie windows opened, plus winamp and messenger, etc opened, and it usually doesn't go past 180M...
and as Sky said, check the paging files settings... don't leave it too low...
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