Hi - just got my system running after some nasty viruses. Have installed Norton Internet Suite & spybot. Thought I would try 30 day free trial of Iolo's System Works 4.
However whenever I run any of their tools such as defragmenter everything slows down. It takes three times as long after clicking on start, to connect to the internet, to get the web pages to come up etc.
Also one of the System Works tools shows how much RAM you are using. It says the average is around 50-60 MB and this dramatically falls whenever I start something. The RAM recovery tool pops up quite often. There should be 128 MBs on this PC.
Do I not have enough RAM and need more. THis has a Pentium 4 processor and I think is quite a fast one so I'm wondering whether the system is currently imbalanced? Or is there something else going wrong? Things seem to slow at the moment. Expecially when installing, uninstalling programs, running system works and doing two things at the same time.
(tx for any help).
However whenever I run any of their tools such as defragmenter everything slows down. It takes three times as long after clicking on start, to connect to the internet, to get the web pages to come up etc.
Also one of the System Works tools shows how much RAM you are using. It says the average is around 50-60 MB and this dramatically falls whenever I start something. The RAM recovery tool pops up quite often. There should be 128 MBs on this PC.
Do I not have enough RAM and need more. THis has a Pentium 4 processor and I think is quite a fast one so I'm wondering whether the system is currently imbalanced? Or is there something else going wrong? Things seem to slow at the moment. Expecially when installing, uninstalling programs, running system works and doing two things at the same time.
(tx for any help).