Adding more memory to systems that already have 2Gb of RAM is not the best course of action. People have gone out and bought expensive disks when they should have invested in more RAM.Īnother example, which particularly affects Vista, is one process hogging the processor and slowing down all the other applications. What happens is slow disk reads and writes are mis-diagnosed as a disk problem whereas the reality is shortage of RAM. Key point, the machine has less than 1Gb of RAM.Īs you analyze Vista’s performance, beware of one problem masking another problem.

Any activity that results in reading or writing data to disk results in the program hanging. When you launch applications, they too are slow to open. Everything about the startup sequence seems in slow motion compared with other machines. The operating system is slow to initialize. Pagefile – A substitute for Physical RAM.ReadyBoost – A new way of adding RAM Memory in Vista.However, buying some form of RAM is by far more likely to speed up your machine, particularly if you only have 512Mb at present. I also want to prepare you for the idea that changing Vista settings such as the Pagefile will only produce limited improvement. Before we begin checking Vista’s memory, may I ask you a question: ‘What action are you prepared to take?’ Would you be willing to: Buy more system RAM? Or invest in a USB RAM key? Alternatively, are you merely looking for cost nothing configuration changes?įor my part, I just wish to give you the benefit of my advice.

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