My sister in law's computer is a dinosaur. She didn't like the fact that it was taking so long to load up, so i told her I would look at it and see what could be done. Here is what I was faced with! LOL!
Anyway, I ordered 128MB of RAM from crucial and put it in tonight. the improvement was amazing. It went from a 6 minute and 20 second start up time, to 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Various windows opened faster. Word for example went from 15 seconds to 9 seconds and multiple windows were able to be opened without too much slowdown.
Here is my question. I monitored the system recources throughout the process of bench marking load times and the percentage of available system recources actually was lower after adding the RAM.
(Before = 32MB RAM ; After = 160MB RAM)
System recources at startup:
Before - 77%
After - 64%
/w MS Word open:
Before - 74%
After - 61%
/w MS Word & IE open
Before - 68%
After - 57%
Now I totally expected the sytem recource percentage to increase on the "After" benchmark. Any theories as to why they would decrease?
Anyway, I ordered 128MB of RAM from crucial and put it in tonight. the improvement was amazing. It went from a 6 minute and 20 second start up time, to 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Various windows opened faster. Word for example went from 15 seconds to 9 seconds and multiple windows were able to be opened without too much slowdown.
Here is my question. I monitored the system recources throughout the process of bench marking load times and the percentage of available system recources actually was lower after adding the RAM.
(Before = 32MB RAM ; After = 160MB RAM)
System recources at startup:
Before - 77%
After - 64%
/w MS Word open:
Before - 74%
After - 61%
/w MS Word & IE open
Before - 68%
After - 57%
Now I totally expected the sytem recource percentage to increase on the "After" benchmark. Any theories as to why they would decrease?