Hello Sadaf,
i read ur post, as this Question is related to my profession, i hope my post will be helpful for u. Firstly with 512 mb Ram u installed Vista on it, it will work like a dead man is walking, the minimum requirements for vista is 1 GB Ram, HD if its more then 150 GB it will be ok else 150 GB is minum requirements, i think even if u upgrade RAM u still can not use Vista as processor Speed should be minumum 2 GHZ and as Vista has alot of high graphics, its VGA size should be minimum 512 MB VGA, i have HP DV 5 that recently my company bought for with INTEL Core 2 DUO processor, as in my profession i saw many notebooks, i m family member of HP, i have used HP with AMD processor and i felt that AMD processor is much faster then INTel processor, the Previous was HP DV 6000 With AMD x2 , but as per ur question, i suggest not to install vista in ur computer, it will still slow as other things like processor, VGA also need to upgrade....