Question for the computer wizards

jwblue · Mar 2, 2005

Can a lack of RAM cause web pages to load slower. Web pages load significanlty slower on my comptuer when I have 20 Internet Explorer Browsers open instead of 1. Would additional RAM help this?

IS

1cheater · Mar 2, 2005

IS, What Operating System do you have? How much RAM now?

I would have to say yes, if you have an older computer and are lookijng for a quik fix.... keep in mind, this is under the assumption that your Virus/Trojan free and clean of Spyware....

I would suggest you defrag once every other week and scan disk once a month..

FairWarning · Mar 2, 2005

And make sure you have all updates on your computer.

Dr.Pepper · Mar 2, 2005

yes, but not likely. a basic webpage such as this forum, should be loading in seconds. if not its your internet speed, or your hardware, or something is sucking your bandwidth, or analyzing your downloads, such as antivirus software.

jwblue · Mar 2, 2005

I have Windows XP...256K RAM.

I have a Kerio Firewall and Avast Antivirus running as well.

IS

1cheater · Mar 2, 2005

IS, you can set your firewall to always give access rights to this forum(tinker with the settings); same thing with the antivirus.

I have heard that XP can be a memory hog; I would probably get another 256 of RAM(20$-30$ I think), your machine can take it.

TTinCO · Mar 2, 2005

XP with 256 runs like CRAP...

I'd say bump it up to 768mb, or maybe even a gig if you do a lot of multi tasking (which it sounds like you do).

orbit · Mar 2, 2005

Additional RAM can never hurt but maybe you could also look into Firefox as your browser instead of IE.

If you regularly have the need for multiple browsers being open then the Firefox tabbing system would be much better than having 20 IE's open ... from a system resource usage point of view.

Just a suggestion ...

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Admin @ THERX.COM · Mar 2, 2005

InSpades said:
I have Windows XP...256K RAM.

I have a Kerio Firewall and Avast Antivirus running as well.

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jwblue · Mar 2, 2005

Thanks for all the advice guys. I am going to jack up the RAM to a gig. I a lot of times have 20 Windows open.

I tried Firefox but it was noticeably slower with loading web pages compared to IE 6.0. Has anyone else experienced this?

IS

Woody0 · Mar 2, 2005

The 1 gig should certainly improve performance. If you don't like Firefox try Maxthon for tabbed sites. You can set it to open all your 20 sites simultaneously which works faster than you can do it manually.

coconutman · Mar 2, 2005

Your IE runs faster because of all the saved internet files. If you load the same sites day in and day out it will load faster from memory. FireFox is great, you should really not notice a different in a browser unless you have as little ram as 256. Try formatting from time to time too.