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My moms computer is ridiculously slow, and she is a very impatient women. Drives you mad. I've boosted the whole thing like explorer can actually open now without waiting 10 mins. There is more memory coming in the mail as she refuses to close things, disabled unneeded services, put the computer in performance mode. Boots at around 800mb not too bad compared to the 1.5 mark she was hitting before when she only has 3 to begin with. Only two errors pop up on login which actually makes the computer stall at the logonui prompt for like 5 minutes. One is a virus, pain in the ass keeps rewriting itself. The other is one seems to be the problem though network framework 2.0 or other is not installed it pops up with. I looked into it and it says it's unneeded non-existent. I'll reboot once I post this and update.
Chrome takes up between 600mb IDLE to 1.5GB in use which cripples the computer, she has 9 tabs open now and two exstentions. She is mainly on those memory hoarding sites like top ten this or 15 best, MSN, Facebook, Pogo, Youtube, and Outlook are always running which is mad. Facebook is either left on the newsfeed which I keep telling her to switch over to her profile when tabs off as it will help but no. So that's 300 MB right there not kidding sometimes more. If she is not on the newsfeed she is playing a game while playing a game on pogo which is 160mb on top of that. Youtube can take up between 150-300mb as well, outlook is 60-120mb. That's like 900MB right there on a machine already loading around 1GB in memory from the boot so that's 2GB and there is only 3GB on here.
I would have thought maybe the extra 1 would provide leeway but it does not, once that point is crossed every thing is on 5-20 min delay. She refuses to use any other browser. And the memory is sort of a last resort thing, like it will do the trick I just don't want to burn out the computer is all ready pretty old.
Any ideas how to lower memory consumption, or leverage the extra gig into favour? My computer is optimised for service handling not application so I have no idea.