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Am I right in believing that by running yahoo messenger it can slow my laptop down because it holds a lot of memory to cache.My laptop is running somewhat slow and a friend told me to uninstall so that my laptop will go faster?

By Anonymous Asked Jul 22 2009 12:02PM
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by jerv on Jul 22, 2009 at 2:34 pm Permalink

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If Yahoo Messenger puts enough of a strain on your system to slow it down ten you might want to upgrade to a computer built in this century. I mean, what kind of chip do you have in there, a Dorito? Anything over 1GHz won't even notice the CPU load, and anything under that was made over a decade ago.

Or it is possible that you just don't have enough RAM to even run Windows right. Realistically, WinXP requires 1GB and Vista 2GB if you wantto run anything other than just Windows.
If you have a 512MB system, you can't even hold all of the processes for WinXP in physical RAM and have to rely on Virtual Memory, which *will* slow you down no matter what, even if you are not running ANY applications.

Or maybe you need to defrag your hard drive. Many people don't do that and then wonder WTF when their system gets slower and sslloowweerr and ssslllooowwweeerrr.
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Avatar jerv Jul, 24 2009 at 11:24 AM
I usually go with Auslogics Disk Defrag. Seems to do the job in a timely manner, and since I do it fairly regularly/often, it only takes a couple of minutes.... unless I get lazy and wait a week between runs.
Avatar Earth Dragon Jul, 24 2009 at 10:28 PM
I wish Windows didn't fragment.. just like Linux.
Avatar jerv Jul, 25 2009 at 12:13 AM
I really don't mind so much though. Maybe that's just because Windows has so many other faults that disk fragmentation seems pretty damn minor :P

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by Jane G on Jul 22, 2009 at 1:52 pm Permalink

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While any processes running will use resources, you won't see a significant difference when using Yahoo messenger. Unfortunately it seems your friend is just guessing without actually having performed any analysis into the problem.
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by busybee on Jul 22, 2009 at 12:06 pm Permalink

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Yes, he's right it does slow down your computer. AIM will do the same. I'm not to sure why it does, maybe because it's a lot for the computer to process.
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