i am having trouble with either yahoo, or very slow ram memory. i have done everything i can think of, please?

Question

i already have 512 ram and a very new vid card, we are still slow

Answer 1

If Yahoo is the only site that's acting slow, I wouldn't worry about it. They won't amit it but they're trying to do too many things at once and its affecting the entire site. They're getting a new home page ready, they're messing with Photomail, and they've got a new Beta Mail. All of these new Yahoo applications are trying to learn how to "play nice" with each other. About 2 weeks ago, people from all over began complaining about not being able to access thier Yahoo mail. The problem lasted about 5 hours and suddenly everything returned to normal. Yahoo denied there was ever a problem, even though many people were writing to Yahoo Answers.

Having said all that, there's a couple of things you should do on a regular basis to keep things running smooth on your computer. First, click Start -> Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Content tab. In this dialog box you will see a button called Auto Complete. Click it and you will see another button called Clear Forms. Click it and then OK twice so you're back at the Internet Options dialog box with all the tabs. (You've just deleted some addresses stored in memory of web sites you've visited. No big deal except anytime something is stored in memory, you lose that memory for other things.)

Next, click on the General tab. Now click on the Delete Cookies and Delete Files buttons (one at a time.) When it asks are your sure, click yes. A little lower is a History button. Click it and say yes when it asks if you're sure. Cookies are small text files stored in memory that make it just a little faster for you to go back to a previously visited site. But advertisers also put "tracking cookies" into your memory and learn what sites you visit. Then those tracking cookies target you with annoying ads of things you might be interested in. So get rid of them! Same thing with those temporary files. They take up a fair chunk of memory. Oh, and that little window that probably says you're saving 20 days worth of History? Why 20 days? If you're like most people, you visit the same sites every day. So keep your history for 2 days...... not 20!

Now that you've done some general housekeeping, there's two more things to do on a regular basis. Disk Cleanup and Defrag. If you've never done these, they could take a few hours the first time depending on the size of your hard drive. But it's really worth it to get things speeded up.

Click start --> programs -> accessories -> system tools. On the system tools menu you will see disk cleanup and defrag. You want to do the cleanup first because there's no point in wasting time defragging things that might actually be deleted through cleanup. Anyway, click on cleanup, put a check mark by everything, and run it. Might take a while so be patient. After the cleanup is finished, do the defrag. Again, just follow the prompts and let it run. When you're finished, your computer should be in a real good operating condition. And you have not, I repeat have NOT, deleted or destroyed anything that is needed for your computer to function normally. If a cookie or a file is needed, your computer will find it again the next time you visit that partiular site.

I do the Disk Cleanup and Defrag every week. I do the other stuff every day. Once you get used to doing it, it really doesn't take much time. If you get into a regular Disk Cleanup and Defrag routine (like just before bedtime and let it run while you're asleep) each cleanup and defrag will go that much quicker.

Oh yeah, one more thing. I hope you have an antivirus and antispyware program installed, that you keep them up to date, and that you actually use them! Viruses, spyware, adware, malware, etc. can really slow a computer down.

Hope some of this helps.

Answer 2

Yahoo has been slow lately. If that's the only service that's giving you trouble, maybe YOU don't have a problem. Does "everything you can think of" include a scan for viruses and/or spyware?