Increase your RAM and sosystem speed

1). Start any application, say Word. Open some
large documents.
2). Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Windows
Task Manager and click Processes tab and sort
the list in descending order on Mem Usage. You
will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be
somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of
memory.
3). Now switch to Word and simply minimize it.
(Don't use the Minimize All Windows option of
the task bar).
4). Now go back to the Windows Task Manager
and see where WINWORD.EXE is listed. Most
probably you will not find it at the top. You will
typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to
find Word. Now check out the amount of RAM it
is using. Surprised? The memory utilization has
reduced by a huge amount.
5). Minimize each application that you are
currently not working on by clicking on the
Minimize button & you can increase the amount
of available RAM by a substantial margin.
Depending upon the number and type of
applications you use together, the difference can
be as much as 50 percent of extra RAM.
In any multitasking system, minimizing an
application means that it won't be utilized by the
user right now. Therefore, the OS automatically
makes the application use virtual memory &
keeps bare minimum amounts of the code in
physical RAM.