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    Ram

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zobi2, Sep 29, 2006.

  1. zobi2

    zobi2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys i need a little of your help
    Recently, my computer got much slower then before
    Now i think i know why...i found out that when i run nothing but windows live messenger...74% of my 512 MB ram is used...what can i do to solve this
    Ive used around 44 of my 69GB hardrive...maybe thats the problem??
    Thanks..
     
    zobi2, Sep 29, 2006
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    Buy more RAM.
     
    EagleDevil, Sep 29, 2006
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    What are you using to check your memory usage?
     
    sionyboy, Sep 29, 2006
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  4. zobi2

    zobi2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i have windows vista and it has a cpu meter
     
    zobi2, Sep 30, 2006
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    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    Windows Vista needs alot of RAM thats why you are running low performance.

    Vista needs AT LEAST 512 MB of RAM.

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Sep 30, 2006
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    I have 2 512 sticks of PC2 4200 I need to get rid of, pm me if interested. I just replaceded them with 2 1g sticks of PC2 5300. Sorry if wrong section
     
    TroyBoy30, Oct 1, 2006
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    but when i was running XP i expierienced the same problem...
    day by day the computer became slower and slower
     
    zobi2, Oct 1, 2006
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    I am a little confused by your comment about Vista having a cpu monitor. Memory and cpu useage are in most cases not really connected. It is possible to run something very cpu intensive that has a small memory footprint and vise versa.

    The best advice is to get more ram. There are so many things that chew it up, it almost seems like you can't have too much. I don't run the live messenger but maybe there are some settings you can change to lessen the memory used. You may also have things running on startup that don't need to and they also eat memory.
     
    Roosterman, Oct 2, 2006
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