[pchelpers] Re: Ram

  • From: Trudy Alatorre <trudy2123@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:54:54 -0700 (PDT)

 
Sometimes my computer is fine but other times it becomes very sluggish and I
wonder if it could be that these extra 'downloads' could be weighing it
down.
 
 
 
Hi Sanna, 
When your computer is running slow again, I would get the Task Manager up ( you 
hit Ctrl/ALT/DEL at the same time). There you look at which application is 
using a lot of memory. If you are not sure what this one is, you can check in 
google. If you know what it is and you don't need it right now, you can tell 
the Task Manager to turn it off. See if that helps.
 
I agree with Jackie who said 512 RAM is not much, but it should be enough to 
run Windows. See, if there is enough extra room on your hard drive, Windows 
will take some of that memory and use it as virtual memory to add to your 
RAM (you would get a message saying that Windows had increased the size of your 
paging file). If you don't ever see this message, the problem should not be 
your amount of RAM.
Trudy 









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