I had a question about my HP Pavilion desktop to IT Tech

[mdklassen · Accepted solution]

> My computer uses 1.4GB out of the 1.9GB of RAM that is provided to desktop.

As you open "tabs", most of that remaining 500 MB is quickly consumed, and Windows starts "swapping" -- moving blocks of RAM onto the disk-drive, to free up those blocks of RAM, to make room in the RAM for more tabs.

Obvously, reading/writing to a spinning disk-drive takes TIME, and creates a "bottle-neck".

If you upgrade to 8GB (as the original computer had), your computer will not need to "swap", and the disk-drive will cease to be the "bottle-neck".

If you are on a REALLY tight budget, even matching the existing 2GB of RAM gives Windows lots more RAM to use.

[ITTech31]

I most certainly upgrade it to 4GB or 8GB depends on how expensive they are. I will try to do that Thank you again.