Do You Still Have A Sufficient Memory?

Who wants a sluggish computer system? No one does. We are definitely not thrilled seeing messages like “Not Responding” and “Virtual Memory Low” nor to wait for an application to finish its operation. In most cases, the solution for this is to upgrade our computer’s Random Access Memory. The good thing is that RAM is so affordable these days.

For you to know if your system needs that RAM upgrade, perform the following steps:

1. Open the applications that you usually run together.
2. Run the Task Manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL on your keyboard or by selecting it after right clicking on the taskbar.
3. Select the Performance Tab.
4. Below the graph is a Physical Memory Section that shows how much RAM is installed in your PC and how much of it is currently Free/Available (see image). If the value is below 100MB, the system is taking a lot of resources in order to compensate for a lack in physical memory.

Recommended minimum ram is 1GB for XP and 2GB for Vista users.