If you've got 8 GB in it and you're running into problems, there's a few potential causes. One is not having enough room on the hard drive for temporary files- but given you've got nearly a full terabyte on your C drive, I'm going to guess there's plenty of free space.
The next possibility is that you've got a lot of programs running simultaneously- either things on the taskbar or in the background. If you're running Aero, you might want to try disabling it for a while and using the less fancy appearance settings, see if that helps at all. If it is, that's your issue.
The last possibility is something gumming up the works, software-wise. Either an install that didn't go quite right, or malware, or something else causing things not to work quite the way they should. This could also be caused by multiple programs that are overlapping, including security programs. For instance, let's say you have three different programs that scan any other program that starts running, to make sure it isn't infected. They're all trying to get at the same files, and also possibly going to be checking out each other. The old too many cooks thing.
It's difficult to say offhand, but I think lack of RAM is probably not the problem here. It might be necessary to try something else- preferably something that's free.
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ninetydegrees
Re: Computer Problems Suck
on 2009-05-27 11:52 pm (UTC)The next possibility is that you've got a lot of programs running simultaneously- either things on the taskbar or in the background. If you're running Aero, you might want to try disabling it for a while and using the less fancy appearance settings, see if that helps at all. If it is, that's your issue.
The last possibility is something gumming up the works, software-wise. Either an install that didn't go quite right, or malware, or something else causing things not to work quite the way they should. This could also be caused by multiple programs that are overlapping, including security programs. For instance, let's say you have three different programs that scan any other program that starts running, to make sure it isn't infected. They're all trying to get at the same files, and also possibly going to be checking out each other. The old too many cooks thing.
It's difficult to say offhand, but I think lack of RAM is probably not the problem here. It might be necessary to try something else- preferably something that's free.