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    Samsung QX411-W02 Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jackbenson, Feb 14, 2013.

  1. jackbenson

    jackbenson Newbie

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    Good morning. My Samsung QX411W02 is booting and loading slower and slower. It has 6GB or memory. I regularly run RegCure Pro to keep it somewhat clean. Typically I have about 90 Processes and Services open. I use the Norton 360 suite for security. Two questions: Can additional memory be added to this unit? Would that speed up boot up and software loads? Thanks for any insight.
     
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  2. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    Your laptop should support 8 GB max, but 2 extra gigs may not solve all your performance issues. If you have that many processes and services running, it may help a bit, but a better solution would more likely be to eliminate what you don't need running using the msconfig tool (disable certain startup entries and non-Microsoft services).

    The biggest performance boost you'll see would be from upgrading to a SSD, though, if you don't already have one installed as your primary drive.
     
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    Zalex Newbie

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    U may back up all your stuff in D: drive or external drive and restore from recovery partition.

    After long time and depending how the user uses the computer, the OS becomes a mess, so the best way in windows is restore/format a fresh OS again.
     
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