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.