hullo again PCHF...yet again am back with my woes!...for a while now i feel my RAM is not giving me full performance...with 2GB RAM i can surf the net and use Photoshop CS2 and open file n folders with no detoration in performance right? but i cant....my photoshop takes ages to open and so does other work...also does a rendering of a web page depend upon RAM or processor? because my web pages too take ages to render...i use firefox for browsing...i might also add that i think the computer slows down only when i use firefox...but i may be wrong its just a hunch...please help me here

Your spec looks more than good enough to use photoshop etc

when you say ages to load etc what exactly do you mean...

your GPU/MOBO/RAM will all effect rendering etc... how old is this install of windows?

yeah, try running Windows Update, Defrag, and run anti-virus, anti spyware.

i just installed it a month back after format...it has all updates upto feb 2007...and as for the security thing i use mcafee total protection, avg anti-spyware, spybot S&D and spyware blaster....i run a scan once a week n clean my registry too...so m pretty sure its sumthin else.

"ages to load" as in during my previous installation of windows the pages and other programs use to load faster then it is now

Firefox definitely hogs more resources than Internet Explorer (between 20MB and 40MB of memory in my case), but it's worth it. Just don't leave Firefox open when playing games or anything.

well herez the catch...games work flawlessly...its only when m using my comp for activities other than games!...mainly wen m surfing

ohj... i may have been wrong here...its not the RAM its my CPU...i checked my task manager when the computer became extremely slow and the ram was jus showin 40% use while the CPU was 100%...some help here guys?...hengis? ladygreenwitch? where art thou?