Steve vRS

My home computer is slowing down to the point where it is a pain using it. It is clear of spy ware and viruses and the disc is cleaned up and de-fragmented.

I think it could be that the memory is just not big enough anymore as it slowed up a bit when I installed Norton Internet Security last October and it slowed up noticeably again when windows installed a new version of IE.

Is it easy to upgrade the memory on a Dell tower style desktop or is there anything else I can do first?

Thanks in advance.

Steve

AndyMoody

iTrader: (2)

Norton is known for slowing things down, you could try downloading the 30 day trial of NOD32 and see if that finds anything that Norton or your spyware hasn't.

lightning101

For memory upgrades download a free tool called CPU-Z, it doesn't need installed to run and it will tell you what memory you have, make , model, speed etc and how many slots and whats in them.

Post up the results on here and some of us will help you find the right thing or use crucial/kingston/corsair memory search systems to track down a match/replacement.

GazTheHat

Try some software called Clean-Up.

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

Hi Steve

My home PC began to slow down last year

I cleaned my system out with Window-washer by webroot, this speeded it up a bit but not as much as when I updraded the RAM to 1gig

Hope you are well

Cheers


Shaun

Steve vRS

Thanks.

I've ran that utility and there are a lot of parameters. Which would you need to diagnose any problem?

Ta

Steve

Pete

Mine is exactly the same at present, really doing my head in now, think i`ll give it a clean out...

Chip Sengravy

when it grinds to a halt......CTRL+ALT+DELETE

click the processes tab...

Click CPU and mem usage to sort in order, and see what is guzzling your cpu&memory. ytou may need to click twice to bring the high users to the top.

svchost