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When your computer constantly loads for no reason at all, then that means you usually have one of two problems. The first one is usually when you do not have enough physical memory. Physical memory is also known as RAM. When you try to run a program you’ll notice that you’ll have a slow loading computer. The second reason is that you may have a fragmented hard drive. That means that many of your files are scattered throughout the hard drive instead of being in one place. This can also cause a slow loading computer.
How can a lack of enough RAM cause you computer to continuously load when you have done nothing to the computer? Even though you are not using the computer there are always background programs running. These background programs can be but not limited to anti-virus, anti-spyware, and other programs that disappear from the task bar when minimized. These programs may at some point cause the RAM to dump memory on the hard drive because there is not enough memory to perform the task it is trying to perform.
How do you stop this? You have two choices really. You can use the task manager to end these processes individually. You can get to the task manager by right clicking on the task bar at the bottom of the screen and selecting task manager. This works for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
How about if you hard drive is fragmented? If you hard drive is fragmented then those background programs can try to perform simple actions. The problem comes in when the file or files that are trying to be read are not whole. This means that it may have to physically look in several different places before it actually reads just one file. This is where Ready Boost wins. You do not have to defragment a flash drive because it is not on a disk.
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