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Trying to "Speed Up" PC

Asked by julianmatz in PC Laptops, Windows XP Operating System, Computer Memory (RAM)

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Hi! I need to speed up my laptop by a good bit. I use it for work, which involves a lot of multi-tasking. The default programs I always have open are Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook Express (for personal e-mails). Almost always I also have Dreamweaver open and frequently use Photoshop, Putty, etc. and sometimes listen to Windows Media Player, open MS Word, PDFs, etc.

Basically, if you saw my task bar on an average day, it would be very full :)

Also, on Firefox I have an average of 20-35 tabs open (as I often work on multiple tasks).

I use Norton Internet Security 2008, which I realise is fairly resource intensive.

I tend to leave my laptop turned on constantly for the simple reason that it takes so long to boot it up and start Windows (I presume this would cause the RAM not to become freed up).

The most resource intensive (Mem usgage and VM usage) is Firefox and Thunderbird.

There's usually a fairly low load on the CPU, so I don't think that's the problem (especially since it's a Core 2 Duo).

I've ordered 2 RAM modules to upgrade the laptop from 1 Gig to 4 Gigs, and am wondering if this will speed up the machine considerably or if there's something else I can do to improve performance. A while back I set my paging file size to 1800-2600 MB on the 2 partitions of my drive and have adjusted Windows for "best performance". Would a better drive increase the performance or would this be indifferent with the 4 Gig RAM upgrade?Start Free Trial
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Zones: PC Laptops, Windows XP Operating System, Computer Memory (RAM)
Tags: Microsoft, Windows XP Professional, 2002 SP2, Acer, TravelMate, 6463WLMi, Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1.66GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD
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