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ForNonGeeks on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The amount of memory, or RAM, that your computer has available, is arguably the single most important factor in determining how efficiently and quickly your programs load and run. So the more memory-intensive programs you have running simultaneously, the slower and less responsive your computer is going to be!
How can you determine which programs are hogging this precious memory and bogging you down, often causing a slow and unresponsive system? Some are chugging away in the background without you even knowing about it!
Windows has a very useful little application called the “Task Manager”, which pops up a little window on demand, showing you just this! Here’s how you can use it to your advantage.
Right click on an empty area in the task bar at the bottom of your screen and select Task Manager from the menu that pops up:
The Task Manager will open.
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ForNonGeeks on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 |
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Each time you download and install some new software you run the risk of creating an unstable environment on your computer. How many times have we switched on our computers to find something is really whacked! Error boxes popping up telling you that your personal settings can’t be found; Settings suddenly disappeared and you can’t start an application; Missing icons from your desktop; All the data seemingly missing from your Money program…the list goes on and on.
What do I do now?
but it was working fine last night!!
Most times the fix is a simple and highly successful one….restore the computer to the exact situation it was in before the problem arose!
This is the magic System Restore fix, so useful and so easy to use! Read the rest of this entry »
