Pc Speed Information

So you are sitting there at 3:23 am waiting for your computer wondering, why is my pc running so slow? You are a normal computer user, doing normal things: You have a few web pages open in at least one browser, maybe more (IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari), some video playing, Flash plugin ads running on the browsers, the normal weather applets and printer applets and update applets running in the taskbar. Lets not forget the latest, aggressive anti-virus software running all the time. Of course, all you really want to do is to get the spreadsheet/presentation/word processing done for your job tomorrow and go to sleep, but youre searching your massive Outlook email archives for relevant info to get the job done, and your computer is running extremely slow. Yeah, and my pc used to work fine and its not even that old! First, close all your web browsers; even the one with the latest Kanye West video, the Huffington Post, Facebook and YouTube and Twitter. Suspend the anti-virus, shut down all the little weather apps, and the screensaver. If you can now get your work done and your computer is working again, congratulations, youve debugged your computer. Diagnosis? Your computer has run out of memory. Also, youve learned you cant really multi-task, at least not on your existing machine. How does it happen that your computer doesnt have enough memory now, after youve been running the same system for years? If youve been keeping up to date with the latest anti-virus, and the latest browsers, and the latest plugins, and you really should be for security, then they all use more memory now, then the same applications a few years ago. For example, your older computer might have shipped with 512MB of memory, then maybe you added another 512MB chip. So you have 1GB of memory, but the new web browser and all the new software is probably using more memory then ever. So if you add more memory your computer will run faster? Your inexpensive machine probably shipped with a slow hard drive, a slow bus, and only 2 places for memory ...