I have a Dell computer that is now 5 years old. It is a Pentium 4, 266gh that had 512 mb of ram. The computer has always done a good job for us, but was starting to seem very slow loading things. I decided to add some ram I added 2 gigs to my 512mb. I checked and it does recognise that I now have 2.5 gigs of ram, but it still seems slow to load, especially the internet. Any other ideas? I have Mcafee internet security suite, and it seems to be up to date.
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cohen
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1. - Run Malwarebytes Anti Malware, and remove everything it finds!
2. - Run CCleaner.
3. - Disable things upon start up, by following this.
4. - Do you a system Defrag.
Then you should notice a difference
Cohen
2. - Run CCleaner.
3. - Disable things upon start up, by following this.
4. - Do you a system Defrag.
Then you should notice a difference
Cohen
Cool, Let me know how you go
Cohen
I did what you said, and it seems to have helped, thank you for the info. The malware found and fixed 6 problems that I did not know of.
That has been puzzeling me, how can Mcafee be so expensive, and others be free? I have always steered away from the free stuff. It makes me wonder why its free, if its as good as the ones you pay for?
cohen
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a lot of people here are the forum use a lot of free stuff!! including Anti-Virus software. Just have a look at this thread and you can see how much free stuff that is out there, and that people use - http://www.computerforum.com/6960-freeware-list.html - it's good. I recommend avast. Most of my computers software is all free software.
Cohen
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Gooberman
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so you have 2.5 GB of ram - 2 sticks of 1 gb or 1 stick of 2 gb + a 512 mb? or did you replace lol
It's probably going slow because it's not good to mix different ram together your 512 mb stick will always have to catch up with the 1/2 gb stick(s) and thats not good for your system
It's probably going slow because it's not good to mix different ram together your 512 mb stick will always have to catch up with the 1/2 gb stick(s) and thats not good for your system
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My computer had 2 256mbs sticks, I added 2 1gig sticks I removed the 256 sticks and put the 1 gig sticks in there place, and the put the old 256 sticks in the empty slots. Its not slow anymore.
2048Megabytes
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Your random access memory is probably running at a data transfer rate of around 2100 megabytes per second. It definitely beats running virtual memory from a hard drive that runs at around 40 to 60 megabytes per second.
Yes, I think it is faster now than when it was new. I guess that the 2 gigs more memory was worth the money.
