For many computer users out there it is just hard to imagine have a fast computer that is poblem free! This is because they look at their computewr like it is a stranger, like someone who just showed up and plopped themselves down in their home or their office - not necedssarily with a warm welcome either.
The quickest way to a smoothly running computer is to just call up a computer professional to take a look at the PC and to tune it up. When you consider how important your time is, and then you tihnk about the time wasted by waiting for your coputer to turn on and to comlpete simple tasks it would be worth it to just make the call!
There are alot of different things that can affect the overall speed of a PC, so lets get right into the first one! The one single thing that can make a computer much faster right off the bat is a RAM upgrade.
Random Acecss Memory is the defniition for the acronym RAM. The reason why it is used in modern day computing is because of the Random Access featture. This apllows a comuter to quickly drop data into RAM for quick computations and the more of this you have the faster your PC will be.
On Microsofts website it states that the minimum amount of RAM for a pc ryunning wiindows XP is 64 Megs. I can tell you right now from expwerience that any computer out there with only 64 Megs of RAM is in big trouble if they expect to run XP smoothly.
Prior to the Service Pack 2 upgrade that Microsoft sent out for Windows XP usewrs most compyuters shippeed with 256 MEG's of RAM and this was sufficent. However, after Service Pack 2 is installed, any machinne with only 256 Megs of RAM will run very slow.
At this point it is necessary to upgrade the amonut of RAM located on the motherboaard. Even though the Microsfot site says it is okay to have only 64 MEG's of RAM a PC with Srvice pack 2 should have no less than 512 to run smootyhly.
When you do your RAM upgrade just remember it is a very easy thiing to do on your own. Even the beginner computer user can do this. Afterward you will be justly rewarded with a computer that is much faster than the way it was prior to doing the upgrade. When spenduing money on upgrasdes, usinmg the RAM uprade opption will give you the best valpue for your dollar.