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2GB is not plenty of RAM. I consider that the minimum for medium usage PCs.
Also, your hard drive is a 5400 RPM drive, which is going to be a huge bottleneck. When the 2GB of RAM does need to fetch, and it will often then it is going to have to go to your slow hard drive. This is confirmed by the high IO we see on your hard drive.
I would at minimum ...
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I don't know if I'd call 2GB a lot of ram. But that's not the point.
Run some tests on your HDD. It could be on its way out. If that
checks out, move to the next idea...
I would highly recommend reinstalling the OS. It still never ceases
to amaze me how often this works. For all you know, there's an issue
in the registry, or some dll file or god only knows ...
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The most obvious solutions have already been given by others (add memory (2GB is really not enough for Win7), remove the 'memory optimizer)'.
Some other things that may help, permanently:
If you're also unsatisfied with slow startup, use Startup Delayer. And check program settings 'Start when Windows starts' - do you really need that?
Check what all the ...
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Unless your web application is very simple, it almost certainly requires a database as a backend. If you expect your web application to support many simultaneous users, you can see where the speed of the database will be crucial in determining how responsive your site is. So this is what you should focus on.
Unless your web application is one where users ...
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I am not sure if anyone has precisely answered all aspects of your question, so I want to provide those answers and done clear advise to move forward.
Why is your computer running slow?The answers are in your screenshots: the resource monitor shows that the system process is doing 99% of the disk writes, and it is writing to the pagefile almost exclusively. ...
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Yes, your assumption is correct - you should always use SSD as your primary drive. The performance difference is really significant!
The transfer speed is not an interesting benchmark - the seek time is. Look at this: http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd
I think you are making a false assumption - you are in full control, which drive on the dell will be ...
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Depends on whether you are already running out of ram. Ram only provides capacity, and as such if you already have plenty, you don't need any more. Windows controls its ram IO cache automatically, so you are not likely to gain noticeable performance from having more cache room, unless you are already running low. but you should have 8GB ram on most modern ...
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There's a chance you damaged your CPU, though most CPUs these days have over-temp protections which kill the system's power before damage occurs, as you found out.
I would check the BIOS settings first - My motherboards reset the configuration to a failsafe if the system is overclocked and fails to boot, or if it hits the temperature cutoff.
Make sure the ...
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Sounds damaged to me. To add to to Darth Androids answer, it may be worth reseating your processor (although, I dought it will help). Also if you can manage to get back into windows, give CPU-Z a gander to see the clock speed and see if the multiplier changes.
On a side note, I reset the BIOS config as a last ditch effort on an Atholon XP processor I ...
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I suggest you to run this command :
winsat disk -drive "drive letter"
And then if you want to know if there is any problem with your HDD, use this software to check its SMART Health Status :
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/drive-monitor/index.html
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2GB of RAM is a bit limited, as nowadays applications tend to be more greedy in RAM.
Actually when we see your Disk I/O activities are most due to the pagefile.sys (which is the disk cache file). It uses it when you don't have enough free RAM. Some has pointed out the 5400RPM disk, in fact, lower the speed the disk has, then the cache is.
In your memory ...
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