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Laptop RAM issue

Fatty-McPhatFatty-McPhat Registered User regular
edited December 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
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I have no idea why but lately I've noticed a lot of stuttering and freezing when viewing pages with a lot of images or listening to music with a lot of other stuff open. Checked my task manager today and noticed that it will never go up above like 1000MB memory used. Anyone have any idea why this could be happening?

e: 32 bit Vista.

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  • theclamtheclam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    It could be a lot of things. If your computer needs to grab anything off of the hard drive, that's quite slow, especially for a laptop. If you've got a lot of programs and windows all open, that will tax your processor.

    Are things actually freezing or is your computer just unresponsive for a couple seconds? Is it just one application at a time that's doing it or does everything slow down at the same time? Can you reproduce it?

    I've seen stuttering on hundreds of computers for dozens of different reasons. By far the most common is that the user is just asking too much of the hardware. Second is usually malware of some sort. Third is probably bad sectors on the hard drive (which can cause all sorts of weirdness).

    Have you ruled out the obvious stuff with a disk check and a virus/spyware scan?

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