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improve laptop speed--RAM

  • 01-12-2010 7:03pm
    #1
    work
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭


    Hi have a 2003 laptop which I wish to keep using. I have freed hard drive so 20 GB free space but incredibly slow. I have previously recieved this message:
    "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more information, see Help."
    Is it possible for me to improve this? It got really slow prior to hard drive being nearly full?

    It has 512MB RAM, I could upgrade to 1GB, is this very technical?
    All help appreciated.
    P.S runs on OS microsoft 2003 professional


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    I presume the laptop has Windows XP on it.

    RAM would definitely improve speed, but imo, seeing that it's 7+ years old i'd be thinking it's time to buy something new. Putting money into a laptop that old doesn't make a lot of sense.


  • #3
    strangel00p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭strangel00p


    work wrote: »
    Hi have a 2003 laptop which I wish to keep using. I have freed hard drive so 20 GB free space but incredibly slow. I have previously recieved this message:
    "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more information, see Help."
    Is it possible for me to improve this? It got really slow prior to hard drive being nearly full?

    It has 512MB RAM, I could upgrade to 1GB, is this very technical?
    All help appreciated.
    P.S runs on OS microsoft 2003 professional



    Your running windows 2003? This is a server os - wouldn't recommend this for a home laptop.

    There is nothing stopping you adding more ram, just check the laptop specification and what type of ram in takes.

    I would recommend reinstalling the operating system, drivers, software and optimizing the paging file. You could have a lot of processes in the background consuming system memory.

    If your interested and living in Dublin, pm me and I could do this for you.


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    If you switch to Ubuntu or similar system that would help speed things up, however it depends on what you use the lappy for. Some Windows stuff won't run on Ubuntu but a lot of programs have an Ubuntu version too.

    You can try it out by creating a "ubuntu live cd" that you put in the lappy and will run as if you had it installed (but it runs from CD instead).


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