Need help getting WIN 7 to use more memory

What I get from Sysinfo is:

A ET1331 eMachine, AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor with 8 GB of RAM memory, a NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 graphic driver, 2287 MB graphics memory available, a 917GB primary hard disk with 786GB free. Win 7 Home Pro, on a 64-bit 2 processor core. It's overall rating is 3.2, with the graphics and gaming graphic memory ratings dragging down the overall rating.

That's a very modest CPU that scores 1839 on a Passmark benchmark.

It's a sub $100 CPU that was introduced in 2010 and was a lower to mid level item at that time.

By today's standards it is quite weak and I'd say you just need to lower expectations and not throw more money at it.

By comparison, an old Intel quad core E 6600 scores 2977 on the same benchmark. Upper level CPUs from the last 3 or 4 years score 8,000 and up.

Unless you have noticed that performance has declined noticeably in the recent past when performing the same tasks you've always done, I wouldn't expect there's much you can do to improve performance if you stay with that hardware.

Thank you!

That is the problem. It used to be very fast, and now it's very slow. The more graphics like side-bar ads, the slower it goes ...

Games halt and jerk now. It's like some software doesn't have enough memory, or is being interrupted by some tracking software, etc.

And I get that message a lot that memory is being maxed out by something ...

System shows 62 processes running with one session of Firefox up ...

ignatzatsonic said:

That's a very modest CPU that scores 1839 on a Passmark benchmark.

It's a sub $100 CPU that was introduced in 2010 and was a lower to mid level item at that time.

By today's standards it is quite weak and I'd say you just need to lower expectations and not throw more money at it.

By comparison, an old Intel quad core E 6600 scores 2977 on the same benchmark. Upper level CPUs from the last 3 or 4 years score 8,000 and up.

Unless you have noticed that performance has declined noticeably in the recent past when performing the same tasks you've always done, I wouldn't expect there's much you can do to improve performance if you stay with that hardware.

Look at the processes tab of Task Manager and sort processes with the CPU tab. Which processes are using the most CPU? I have nothing using more than 3% of CPU as I type this.

What is shown as checked in the startup tab when you run msconfig? I have 7 items checked.

In the services tab of msconfig: check "hide all Microsoft services" and then tell us how many services are then shown as running. I have 7.

What apps have you used recently to scan for viruses or malware?

Firefox is the most, taking 4% as I type this reply. Five processes check in Startup ... 17 services running with "hide all Microsoft services" checked. The anti-virus is Norton, and I scan with Spy-bot as well.

Is responsiveness any better with those 17 non-Microsoft services stopped?