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2. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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   Add More RAM: Increasing your computer's RAM can significantly improve performance, especially if you frequently use memory-intensive applications or multitask heavily.

3. Here’s what it means to optimize your computer - AOL

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   Use the Disk Cleanup tool: If you use a PC, this is an automatic tool you should take advantage of to free up space. You can also use your computer's "cleanup system files" feature that removes ...

4. Why is my brand new computer so slow? Here are the 5 top ...

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   After a quick scan of your computer, the software is able to do things like free trapped RAM to increase speed, adjust hidden broadband settings, defragment your hard drive and so much more.

5. Random-access memory - Wikipedia

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   Many computer systems have a memory hierarchy consisting of processor registers, on-die SRAM caches, external caches, DRAM, paging systems and virtual memory or swap space on a hard drive. This entire pool of memory may be referred to as "RAM" by many developers, even though the various subsystems can have very different access times ...

6. Computer multitasking - Wikipedia

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   Use of a swap file or swap partition is a way for the operating system to provide more memory than is physically available by keeping portions of the primary memory in secondary storage. While multitasking and memory swapping are two completely unrelated techniques, they are very often used together, as swapping memory allows more tasks to be ...

7. ReadyBoost - Wikipedia

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   As the price of RAM decreased and more RAM was installed in computers, the mitigations provided by ReadyBoost to systems with insufficient memory decreased. The core idea of ReadyBoost is that a flash memory (e.g. a USB flash drive or an SSD ) has a much faster seek time than a typical magnetic hard disk (less than 1 ms), allowing it to satisfy ...