Since the first day where my laptop got it performance slowed down,i noticed this:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Pyod8fj.png[/t]
Anyone know how to fix this,and why this happens?
Who knows,fixing that will return my performance (hopefully)
Why are you using 2GB in 2017
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;52625570]Why are you using 2GB in 2017[/QUOTE]
Blame my parent for giving me an used,crappy laptop instead of allowing me to buy a new one
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;52625570]Why are you using 2GB in 2017[/QUOTE]
I mean, if you're just doing word processing then 2GB is fine. People that buy laptops with 8GB of ram just to send emails and write documents are crazy
[QUOTE=djjkxbox;52625650]I mean, if you're just doing word processing then 2GB is fine. People that buy laptops with 8GB of ram just to send emails and write documents are crazy[/QUOTE]
If you use Chrome 8GB is a lifesaver
Chrome eats RAM like breakfast and on my laptop I usually get usage from 3.5-4.3GB
You have created a lot of threads about your performance issues, here's some stuff you could try to improve your performance:
I see that you have aero on, disable that.
[url]https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-aero-on-windows-vista/[/url]
Disable startup items, disable anything that isn't microsoft, intel, or your antivirus:
[url]http://www.optimizingpc.com/windows7/windows_7_msconfig.html[/url]
And follow this guide to maybe improve your gpu performance.
[video=youtube;BZG50Nm5sOM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZG50Nm5sOM[/video]
If you have a laptop you cannot "solve" it because laptops need to use the integrated and the gpu if it has one.
If you had a desktop there's usually a bios setting for it.
You seriously just need to add more RAM. That is really all that is wrong with it. Noticing a performance difference because you "dropped" 128 MB of RAM means you are absolutely starved for memory. An i5 2410 is still a fairly decent processor for modern stuff, you just need more memory so its not bottlenecked anymore.
2 GB was considered entry level back in 2011 when that laptop came out. So its definitely the "business bargain special" model. Now, 2GB is barely usable in 2017. Chrome will use that just after a couple tabs. Get it up to 4 or higher, depending on budget, and you will notice a huge difference.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox;52625650]I mean, if you're just doing word processing then 2GB is fine. People that buy laptops with 8GB of ram just to send emails and write documents are crazy[/QUOTE]
Not really. 8gb is pretty standard and with today's web pages they take a lot of ram to run smoothly
The iPad (2017) has 2GB of RAM. Are you telling me that webpages do not run smoothly on it despite it being a 2017 device?
[QUOTE=djjkxbox;52629407]The iPad (2017) has 2GB of RAM. Are you telling me that webpages do not run smoothly on it despite it being a 2017 device?[/QUOTE]
iOS is a very optimized os. Try using a 2gb windows tablet with crappy emmc storage for paging.
That's true, Windows will need more, but even then 4GB of RAM would be fine for just webpage browsing.
Yeah, 4gb is completely fine for web browsing.
[QUOTE=Zufeng;52625584]Blame my parent for giving me an used,crappy laptop instead of allowing me to buy a new one[/QUOTE]
Most laptops allow you to upgrade your ram. Look up your model.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox;52629422]That's true, Windows will need more, but even then 4GB of RAM would be fine for just webpage browsing.[/QUOTE]
8gb really is becoming the standard, having just a few programs up like a web browser with several tabs and a word processor and a chat program can rack up the usage.
I didn't even know that sandy bridge i5 laptops came in configurations with less than 4GB of RAM. As long as the RAM isn't soldered, it should support at least 8GB of RAM.
Okay,so this little thing just happen and its affect my performance.
So i just installed Coreldraw,Restarted,and during the startup,its show some of my spec
When i checked the properties,i noticed its changed into this:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/w0siBWD.png?1[/t]
And most importantly,my laptop performance are restored,but hibernating causes my laptop to return to its previous slowdown
Anyone have any idea about this one?
[QUOTE=Levelog;52629609]8gb really is becoming the standard, having just a few programs up like a web browser with several tabs and a word processor and a chat program can rack up the usage.[/QUOTE]
One of the things you have to remember is a task such as word processing doesn't suddenly use more resources year by year. Web browsing does use a little bit more every few years since websites become more complex, but ultimately it doesn't actually use a considerable amount more. OS upgrades probably use the biggest amount of RAM, but even still Windows 10 is pretty well optimized to a degree, and 4GB of RAM will probably be fine for 5 years or more when it comes to basic tasks such as web browsing/word processing.
"Chat program" is very vague. You do have modern programs like Discord which are based off Electron, ultimately eating away at RAM due to the framework its built off, but Discord seems to be popular mainly among the gaming community, and you're probably going to have a computer with at least 8GB if you're involved in that.
My original point goes to people doing very basic tasks, i.e Facebook, general web browsing, office work, emails. These are all perfectly fine with 4GB of RAM, even on a Windows 10 machine.
[editline]30th August 2017[/editline]
And if you're going away from Windows 10, lightweight distros of Linux can do the aforementioned tasks on 2GB of RAM or less, as Kiwi said.
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52629485]I got by with a Celeron Dothan based processor and 1GB of [I]DDR[/I] memory. It was a real weird experience for a few days. Then again I was running Lubuntu so I had plenty of memory free.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Zufeng;52630560]Okay,so this little thing just happen and its affect my performance.
So i just installed Coreldraw,Restarted,and during the startup,its show some of my spec
When i checked the properties,i noticed its changed into this:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/w0siBWD.png?1[/t]
And most importantly,my laptop performance are restored,but hibernating causes my laptop to return to its previous slowdown
Anyone have any idea about this one?[/QUOTE]
it still doesn't have 2.00gb available
it's got 1.89 available
[QUOTE=Zufeng;52625584]Blame my parent for giving me an used,crappy laptop instead of allowing me to buy a new one[/QUOTE]
Allowing you to buy a new one? Allowing you? I don't understand, does them giving you an old retrograde laptop stop you?
[QUOTE=Zufeng;52630560]Okay,so this little thing just happen and its affect my performance.
So i just installed Coreldraw,Restarted,and during the startup,its show some of my spec
When i checked the properties,i noticed its changed into this:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/w0siBWD.png?1[/t]
And most importantly,my laptop performance are restored,but hibernating causes my laptop to return to its previous slowdown
Anyone have any idea about this one?[/QUOTE]
When your laptop hibernates and wakes up, it needs to reload all the RAM contents from the hard drive.
It's roughly the same as running out of RAM and recovering from that, which takes a while.
You'll probably run into issues as soon as you run more than two 'heavy' programs at the same time, in general. A web browser counts as 1 to 2 of them alone, depending on how you use it.
[editline]31st August 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=GHOST!!!!;52631600]Allowing you to buy a new one? Allowing you? I don't understand, does them giving you an old retrograde laptop stop you?[/QUOTE]
Money, I assume. Not everyone has an allowance that's high enough to buy devices like that without parents chipping in some extra.
Well,its seems i found a temporary solution.
Turn out,removing and inserting the battery fixed my performance problem.
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