Memory Performance slowly getting worse

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o.ash92

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Hi,

I upgraded my system RAM from 256MB to 512MB about 2 months ago. At first, it took about 20 seconds to open iTunes (itunes.exe, ituneshelper.exe, ipodservice.exe, qttask.exe) and MSN (msnmsgr.exe) on system startup. However, it now takes about 1-2 minutes to finish loading exactly the same startup applications.

It seems that the performance of my memory is slowly getting worse, if that's possible?

Or could it be something else, any ideas?

Thanks,
Oli
 
Yup, I have done an Anti virus and spyware scan.

I don't have any processes running which I don't need.

Hmm...

P.S. It's not the computer which is slow, just it takes a lot longer to startup than it should do,
 
Have you checked to see what programs are running on startup via run > msconfig?

It may be that you have a few more processes that are loading up with Windows now, which uses up more of your physical RAM, so it's relying on the page file, which is much slower.
 
[-0MEGA-];664739 said:
Have you checked to see what programs are running on startup via run > msconfig?

It may be that you have a few more processes that are loading up with Windows now, which uses up more of your physical RAM, so it's relying on the page file, which is much slower.
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Yup, only the processes which I named in the original thread post load on startup- exactly the same ones that used to load in 10-20 seconds.
 
Huh?

I have two 256MB sticks in at the moment which makes up the 512MB.

Do you mean remove the upgrade which I purchased a while back to see if there's a difference?
 
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