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Increasing my RAM
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I've just signed up to BT Total broadband, but in order to download the online protection including Norton Antivirus etc... I need 256 MB RAM. According to my laptop I have 224MB is there anything I can do e.g. removing programs to increase my RAM?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I would strongly recommend you do NOT use Norton - it is a dreadful resource hogger,and with 256 mb RAM your machine will really slow down. There are plenty of free programs equally good (I think better) and particularly recommend the following:
Firewall - Comodo
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
Antivirus - Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Spyware - Spywareblaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster .html
and Spybot - update and run once a week or so
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/imprint/ind ex.html
All of these are free, run well together, and apart from Spybot run continuously in the background, with automatic updates.
Firewall - Comodo
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
Antivirus - Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Spyware - Spywareblaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster .html
and Spybot - update and run once a week or so
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/imprint/ind ex.html
All of these are free, run well together, and apart from Spybot run continuously in the background, with automatic updates.
if you go to http://www.orcalogic.co.uk/asp/memoryfinder.as p?ft=m&st=1 and enter your laptop details, it will tell you what memory module you need.