Upgraded to 2gb and seem slower than stock 512mb

just upgraded to 2gb (2x1gb) from transintl.com
start up seems slower the only tiny diferrence i notice is after i open everything a couple of times. opening programs area really slow at start up.
what is a good way to test these things
i have a macbook pro 1.83... it is registering on the "about this mac"
any ideas
macbook pro 1.83   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Hi,
Since no one knows how well your system install is, or how well it ran prior to installing the ram, try running the Combo Updater for 10.4.9......
Re-apply combo updater for various issues At the risk of playing like a broken record, we cannot overstate the value of re-applying the Mac OS X combination updater as a solvent for various issues apparent after using the standard, delta (adjacent version-to-version) updater to migrate to Mac OS X 10.4.9. The delta updater is automatically used by Software Update if your current system iteration is 10.4.8. Re-applying the combo updater overwrites potentially problem-causing files that were not replaced by the delta update. Download link is as follows:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1049comboupdateintel.html
Also, Repair Permissions after all the updates. Disk Utility is located in Applications-Utilities.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh17.html
Then I would like you to do a PMU reset, and PRAM reset. When resetting PRAM let it chime four or more times even though Apple says twice. Here are instructions....
Reset PRAM NVRAM...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Reset PMU....
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
Also, make sure that the nstalled ram is showing up correctly in System Profiler. Did you buy the correct spec ram?

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