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Re: short on RAM?

From mike <spamme9@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: short on RAM?
Date 2011-11-19 18:32 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ja9org$qs3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <ja9n3l$7hj$1@reader1.panix.com>

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Rich Greenberg wrote:
> Wife gave daughter a new laptop, got back old one, a Dell Inspiration
> 600m.  I wiped it and loaded XP sp3++ and it runs fine EXCEPT:
> 
> Some of the time she is doing email on AOL's web site it runs so slow
> as to be useless.  My first guess is memory.  It only has 1/2 gig of
> RAM.  Would another half gig be a good investment?
> 
"Except" is the clue pointing to the problem.
What does task  manager say about the ram when aol is running?
How about cpu load?  Other processes hogging the system?
How does it perform on another email website?
Current flock of virus scanners assume you have all the memory
and cpu power in the world and them some.  When I take a laptop
to a swapmeet to sell, I always disable the virus scanner to perk it up.

While more ram may help, I rarely upgrade an old laptop past 512MB.
512MB helps a lot over 256, but you're getting into diminishing
returns over 512, unless you insist on running a lot of stuff 
simultaneously.
Of course, if the ram is free, load it up.
To add ram, I'm guessing you have to throw out all of what's in there. YMMV.

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short on RAM? richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg) - 2011-11-20 02:02 +0000
  Re: short on RAM? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-19 18:32 -0800
    Re: short on RAM? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-19 20:09 -0800
      Re: short on RAM? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-20 02:53 -0600
        Re: short on RAM? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 05:40 -0800
          Re: short on RAM? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 06:21 -0800
            Re: short on RAM? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-20 09:44 -0600
              Re: short on RAM? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 19:00 -0800
                Re: short on RAM? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-12-04 22:51 +1300
                Re: short on RAM? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-12-04 06:40 -0800
                Re: short on RAM? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-12-07 15:44 +1300
          Re: short on RAM? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-20 09:24 -0600
    Re: short on RAM? richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg) - 2011-11-20 16:55 +0000
      Re: short on RAM? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-20 11:20 -0600
        Re: short on RAM? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 16:08 -0400
          Re: short on RAM? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-20 14:23 -0600
        Re: short on RAM? richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg) - 2011-11-20 20:37 +0000
          Re: short on RAM? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-20 15:37 -0600
          Re: short on RAM? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 17:46 -0400
          Re: short on RAM? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 14:23 -0800
            Re: short on RAM? richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg) - 2011-11-21 00:46 +0000
            Re: short on RAM? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-11-21 08:56 -0400

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