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I see. If that's the case, I should probably upgrade my Ram to additional 2GB. Anyway, for the 30 bucks, may I know which currency is that?
I see. If that's the case, I should probably upgrade my Ram to additional 2GB. Anyway, for the 30 bucks, may I know which currency is that?
united States Dollars. But that was at a time that DDR2 RAM was literally cheaper than a bag of dirt. And that RAM was on sale at newegg. It's gotten more expensive sense then and DDR3 (which is what you have) is even more expensive. Looks like it would be ~$90 or more for the kind of upgrade I did (two new sticks). If you only have one stick of RAM currently installed, you can get another for ~$45. Sorry about that. I shouldn't have mentioned a price and got your hopes up. I think you should look around google and see how else to decrease you RAM usage for now.
No problem man. It's okay. Thanks for the advice. Basically, I guess there are many alternatives. Upgrading the ram is probably one of the more effective option but involves $. Lol.
Very true. Do you also live in the US? I can try to find out exactly what type of RAM you have and make recommendations from Newegg (the cheapest place around IMO).
How much RAM the system uses at idle depends largely on how much RAM you actually have.
Also remember, that what task manager is showing as RAM use is only whats currently active. In all reality, you likely have 0 RAM available, the rest is simply loaded and in standby mode.
Which is a good thing!
I agree with everone else. Cut out all the stuff at start up.
Stuff Like Adobe, Yahoo, etc is totally pointless to have start up w/Windows.
the only things I have start with Windows is:
Antivirus, ATI CCC, Sound Card, & Acronis. (This IMO are neccesities)
OH, and.. I leave the side bar as a start up item :)
Everything else has been disabled.
Thanks =) But unfortunately friend, we are many miles apart. I live in Singapore. Lol. Anyway, nice to know you here in this forum.
We can help with what is and isn't needed somewhat. Grab ccleaner (slim version),
CCleaner - Builds
After installed run and click on Tools, then click on Startup. Next click on the Enabled column to sort them yes and no, and then post a screen shot of the list.
Also in msconfig click on the Service tab and then check "hide Microsoft services" and post a screen shot of that as well.
1. None are "critical" for the system except the AV program. And that is critical for your protection. Even if a program is not in the startups, it will be started when it is called upon. So nothing is lost.
2. Of course they do. The more programs/processes you have started, the more will run. Sounds logical, doesn't it.
Hi whs, thanks for the specify answers.
Hi stormy13, I have captured and attached the screenshots.
With these, it does improve a bit. The processes went from 78 to about 60 on startup. however, the physical memory is still at the usage of 50% which I believe the OS is consuming them.