I switched from IE7 to 8 recently. Computer was slow. Bumped up RAM to 2 GB, and hooey, what a difference. You might look at yours and consider this inexpensive easy fix.
Steve
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OT - RAM bump up
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How much RAM did you have to start with?
Jimmie
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What version of 'Winders'?
Yesterday I finally moved to Firefox, from IE6 :-/
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Firefox will give your cat warts. If you don't have a cat, you should be okay.
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More RAM is always THE first idea for slow machines (after a malware scan)
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Remember this quote?
"Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM. (Bill Gates, 1983)"
A certified MS instructor told me years ago - "Two things Windows loves is more RAM and more hard drive space."
I have 2GB on Win2K and another 2GB ready for when I move to Win7 (64).
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On 3/7/2010 2:20 PM Oren spake thus:
Ya know, I really like Firefox, certainly over Internet Exploiter/Exploder. Except for one thing: it's slower than dogshit on a lot of things. Much slower than it should be.
I know why this is: because of the nature of distributed, open-source software development, where lots of volunteer programmers each write a little module here and a little module there, there's little or no overall optimization like you'd have if it were a regular commercial product. That's because you have module A which calls module B which calls module C ... which calls module Z, and this happens many many times per second. In a commercial product, a lot of these chains of calls would be linearized so they'd execute faster.
So it's a tradeoff. I'd really love to someday see *fast* versions of both Firefox and Thunderbird, but I'm not holding my breath.
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On 3/7/2010 4:15 PM snipped-for-privacy@usenet.com spake thus:
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The other thing worth doing (and it's free) is to see how many applications are starting up every time you turn the PC on. They all want to use some of your RAM even though you might not need them running every time.
Some common items are Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office. There are others.
Charlie
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How much RAM did you have to start with?
Jimmie
reply: I went from 512 mb to 2 GB. Internet Explorer 8 right now sets 512 as "Minimum." With all the Flash and stuff, it takes a lot of memory to just open pages. Ebay is one that changed tremendously over the years. If you have anything else open, it is s-l-o-w! I can't believe the difference. $60 is what it cost after $20 rebate. Takes two minutes to change.
Steve
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Windows XP.
Steve
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How much RAM do you have?
Steve
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I use Comodo and AdAware. They do good.
Steve
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Buhbye.
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posting from giganews. Now that's funny!
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On 3/7/2010 4:55 PM Charlie spake thus:
Yes. The Windoze Task Manager comes in quite handy here.
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Are you saying that since M$ owns the entire IE product that they optimize the code and that it's better than Firefox? ;-)
I'd like to see that too. That used to BE Firefox, but it's succumbed to bloat over the years, too. I tried Opera but there are too many sites I frequent where it simply doesn't work.
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On 3/7/2010 5:37 PM snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz spake thus:
Well, better as in faster, yeah. But of course subject to the limitations of any M$ product by design (as in brain-damaged in many ways).
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I've had FF one day. Youtube, not supporting IE6 next week (13th) would soon give me warts.
In an hour I went through the jump-roping and now have another free browser. Faster for me...
No warts on my cats (Darby and Wally) or my African dog.