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4GB is plenty for Windows. As stated previously, you most likely have bloatware starting up with Windows, the biggest offender being the Internet security suite. Remove it and get Microsoft Security Essential for free. The other possibility is that your new computer came with a bum hard drive that's about to die but odds are, its the security software.
Well, tightwad, this tightwad would rather have paid less for an "economy" level of laptop that needed say $150 upgrade worth of memory than get a better grade computer that STILL needs the extra $150 memory upgrade. Get my point?
Oh yes, I get your point. You chose the wrong computer for your expectations.
Control Panel/System/Advanced System Settings/Settings button in Performance.
In the Visual Effects tab fill the radio button for Adjust for best Performance and Click okay. Wait until it's finished.
Start/Run. Type in msconfig click OK. In the startup tab remove check marks from programs you don't need. If you are unsure post the list here by typing it out or use print screen and post the picture(s). You will get help with what to keep and what to dump. Do the same for Add/Remove programs in Control Panel and you will get advice about keep/dump.
If you don't have Run on the Start menu right click the Start button and choose Properties. Click Customize and add a check mark to the Run box.
I got Dell Inspiron 14 laptop with 4 gigs and supposedly doesn't need more memory. Thing is as slow as can be. My 2gig Compaq/HP that's 2 years old is better than this.
Was trying to keep the cost down, buy a little better and don't need a memory upgrade. Apparently that's not the case. Do I have to add memory anyway?
Naturally there is a 15% restocking fee if returned. Please give me some useful advice before I throw this piece of crap out the window and throw 100% of the cost away.
RAM is only one indicator of performance among many. For most home users, the difference between 2gigs and 4gigs is almost negligible. And if you have a 32-bit machine you are capped at about 3.5gigs anyway.
Did you pay attention to CPU speed, FSB and L2/L3 cache? RAM speed? Video card? etc.
Control Panel/System/Advanced System Settings/Settings button in Performance.
In the Visual Effects tab fill the radio button for Adjust for best Performance and Click okay. Wait until it's finished.
Start/Run. Type in msconfig click OK. In the startup tab remove check marks from programs you don't need. If you are unsure post the list here by typing it out or use print screen and post the picture(s). You will get help with what to keep and what to dump. Do the same for Add/Remove programs in Control Panel and you will get advice about keep/dump.
If you don't have Run on the Start menu right click the Start button and choose Properties. Click Customize and add a check mark to the Run box.
I'm still on my old xp machine so I don't have a lot of W7 experience, but can't you just open up the start menu and start typing without having to open up the run.. window?
Nice tip on the "adjust for best performance" option.
No, it's not. I'm sitting here looking at Windows 7 and I have separate Search and Run boxes.
You can add the run box to the start menu, but why? In the default configuration, if you enter something in the search box that you would have entered into the run box (like services.msc, regedit, msconfig) it runs.
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