Increase your RAM and so system speed

1). Start any application, say Word . Open some large documents.

2). Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Windows Task Manager and


 click Processes tab and sort the list in descending order on Mem

Usage . You will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be somewhere


 at the top, using multiple MBs of memory.


3). Now switch to Word and simply minimize it. (Don't use the


 Minimize All Windows option of the task bar).

 

4). Now go back to the WindowsTask Manager and see where


 WINWORD.EXE is listed. Most probably you will not find it at


 the top. You will typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to


 find Word . Now check out the amount of RAM it is using.


 Surprised? The memory utilization has reduced by a hugeamount.


5). Minimize each application thatyou are currently not working


 onby clicking on the Minimize button & you can increase the


 amount of available RAM by a substantial margin. Depending


 upon the number and type of applications you use together, the


 difference can be as much as 50 percent of extra RAM.




In any multitasking system, minimizing an application means that it


 won't be utilized by the user right now. Therefore, the OS


 automatically makes the application use virtual memory & keeps


 bare minimum amounts of the code in physical RAM.