Increase your RAM & 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 Windows Task 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 huge amount.

5). Minimize each application that you are currently not working on by
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.