Your No-Nonsense Quick and Simple Guide to know if You Need More Laptop Memory (Rakesh Jain)

Although it is known these days to upgrade your laptop memory a good way to speed up, the truth is that it is not always a memory shortage is slowing you down. Laptop Memory upgrades can actually significantly increase the performance of your laptop, but the question remains, should you choose to upgrade?

If you're not accustomed to computers all that much you're probably confused as how to find the answer. What to do? Ask friends? To see how much memory your system uses (ie, through the Task Manager in Windows), or perhaps a guess and update anyway (because they hear it's a good thing). While it may seem that the two above sensible approach, you're probably thinking, there is no simplified method?

The answer to this last question is "yes" there is a good news is that it is simple and can direct you to the correct answer, offering you a clear yes or no, and depending on whether or not to upgrade your laptop memory is based.

Just follow these steps, noting the answers to each:

1) First, ask yourself if you feel my laptop slow?

As you are a person who uses your computer on a regular basis you may think that it is running slow? Do you think that is slower than when you first bought it? Perhaps you started using other software, which worsens their activities enough for you to notice? Currently, we do not care a detailed report on why my laptop slow (if it is!). All these things must now be true to yourself - whether it's the answer to be "yes" or "no"? By starting off with this simple yes or no, we're already on the right track in identifying, if you purchase and install a laptop memory upgrade will be useful!

If the answer is yes to the above, follow these steps:

2) Does the processor is often maxed out at 100% usage, or nearly 100% utilization within their normal route using my computer?

The overall reason why laptops slow down the operation of their software is too heavy, you processor can handle, or the amount of software that is usually carried out in parallel (called multitasking) together leads to the same result. To check if your processor has headroom still left it open Windows Task Manager by pressing a CTRL + ALT + DEL simultaneously. Linux you press CTRL + ESC (or similar depending on the Linux release) to turn on the System Monitor. If you are using Mac OS to open Activity Monitor in Applications / Utilities folder. Or use a 3rd party software (many of which are free over there looking on Google, Yahoo or Bing) your real operating system.

Also, keep a box somewhere where you can see it all the time. Look to your menu, such as "Always on top" option. This will cause the window is always displayed in the foreground no matter what other software you bring to the foreground. Now use your PC as usual, to try and keep up with the tasks that you normally perform which types of applications, the number of which has opened at one time and also the way in which you multitask (ie, perhaps you watch videos from YouTube in the background to write the report to a boss wanted yesterday!).

Finally, cast your eyes back to the Task Manager window, or similar (depending on your operating system). In addition to the CPU usage graph what you see? Are there many large CPU spikes? Does the use of low or what would be the case) it is often or even always maxed out 100%? If you have a multi-core processor then check each individual graph (corresponding to each core. Do they exceed 50% utilization or less? If you notice a heavy usage means that your processor is finding it hard to keep up, that's the reason - the result is what you see every day, degraded system performance.

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