question about memory & pagefile usage

I recently upgraded from 256 Mb ram to 1 Gb, and didn't really notice
any performance improvement. I wanted to see if my theory about why
sounds right.

I noticed that when I check the performance tab in task manager, it
shows pagefile usage rather than memory usage. So this means even
after the upgrade, Windows + all my start up apps are eating up the
entire gig of memory and still need a pagefile.

Before my system was using 256MB ram + a larger page file, whereas now
its using 1Gb + a smaller page file, so essentially would that explain
roughly why I don't feel a performance improvement? Because, yeah, I
added more ram, but it's all being used up right away anyway, and I'm
still in slower pagefile performance mode, so to speak?

.

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