2006-10-28 22:45:34 · 7 answers · asked by she wolf 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Backup your files and then delete anything on your hard drive you don't need on a regular basis.
If you need it some time in the future you can get it from the backup.
2006-10-28 22:48:06 · answer #1 · answered by jan 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yep you can go into the control panel and go to sounds and disable the windows chime on start up and shut down, that will save your computer some RAM while booting up and shutting down. You can lighten up on the display by going into the control panel and system properties>advanced>Performance settings and untick one thing at a time and see what you can do without. When all are unticked it looks just like windows 98. I am also assuming you have windows XP but I think you can do this for 98 too and things will be in approximately the same place. And if you do have XP there is a tab in the performance options that says advanced and then a section that says memory options tick programs. Also what is running in the system tray where the clock is? All you should have there is the clock, safely remove hardware, antivirus icon and maybe email client or calender and volume icon nothing else. Go into each program individually as much as possible and disable the system tray or quicklaunch option as this takes up valuable real estate in the RAM as they are all running in the background. Also go to START>ALLPROGRAMS>STARTUP and see what is there, nothing should be there unless you have a calender. Delete anything off there, it will only delete the shortcut not the program.
When all this is done go START>ALL PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS and do a disc clean up and then defragment your hard drive. I think you will find that your computer will run so much faster now.
2006-10-28 22:56:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Using paging larger paging files rarely gives an adequate solution as it is quite slow compared to ram. There are a lot of programs which are quite often run on startup. I would sort out your startup options so that you only load essential programs into memory and that way you have the memory available for the tasks in hand.
If you go into the process information screen you can order the processes by how much memory they use. The name can be quite unhelpful at times but it should be possible to work which programs are using the most memory and if they aren't required you can just click on the process and kill it.
2006-10-28 22:52:43 · answer #3 · answered by doyler78 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If all else fails buy more memory if you have room. Also you can upgrade your current memory. Memory is cheap. Put as much memory in your machine as possible. You will get a improved performance out of your machine. Your machine will last longer. You will be much happier.
2006-10-29 00:20:01 · answer #4 · answered by newfrog_of_ar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
memory? virtual memory or disk space? virtural memory
right click my computer, properties ,advanced,advanced again,
virtural memory,change,set both high and low at 1024 and set
also turn off all your messengers from starting at startup
then g start,all programs,startup and delete everything thats there
2006-10-29 00:19:49 · answer #5 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah maybe the memory your on about is virtual memory thats just when your running to many programmes and your computer cant cope. try increasing your paging file. if other then delete all unused programmes or add more memory.
2006-10-28 22:49:13 · answer #6 · answered by Tiger 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Make a copy of all your important files, pictures, E-mail addresses on CDR and then un-install all the programmes you never use. This should free up space and your PC will load quicker.
2006-10-29 01:23:16 · answer #7 · answered by Mags 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋