Has ipernity become slow?

Thank you, Sébastien and Nick M! It's a good start to know where the problem lies!

carulmare - Nick's right! Defragmenting can be fun, too (if you eat chocolate while it's happening!) and the "CCleaner" does wonders, usually. (I receive no commission of any kind!)

Good luck!
qwurky / david

Thank you, qwurky! I'm getting a lot of fine and sound advice... and I almost feel a little sorry to say that I have done all these things, recently or yesterday. :) Except that I didn't eat chocolate, while I was defragmenting. Sleeping was my choice! :) I even have CCleaner... can you believe that? And it is a good program.

Now I'm starting to think that I going to need a new computer...Photoshop (CS3) is also running a little slow... That is not as drastic as it may sound, since I have been offered a better computer than the one I have now. Only have to repair it first.

You might try adding more RAM..it is cheap these day. XP 32 bit will only recognize 3 gigabytes, And you probably have 1 gig already. Try crucial.com. They can scan your machine and tell you exactly what you have and what you can upgrade to! Keep in mind that XP is still the best choice for windows based operating systems. Windows Vista is going down the tubes! good luck to you!
one more thing my system got very slow with all the pictures on the hard drive..I now have a 500 gig external H/D..I'm running fast now!

Thanks, Varga!

I'm getting a new machine now... 2 GB RAM and 5200... eh, something! :) Anyway, my computer seller promised it's going to run like a racer car.

A strange thing is that he wants to change the RAM of this used computer from 2GB... to another kind of 2GB... DRam or something? Anybody that can explain that?

I agree about XP, Vista is using far to much RAM...

An external hard disk would be nice... but for now I think I'm going to burn my pictures on DVD.

This seems to be a subject that we all think about...!

There are two different types of RAM: DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and SRAM (Static Random Access Memory). The two types differ in the technology they use to hold data, with DRAM being the more common type. In terms of speed, SRAM is faster. DRAM needs to be refreshed thousands of times per second while SRAM does not need to be refreshed, which is what makes it faster than DRAM. DRAM supports
access times of about 60 nanoseconds, SRAM can give access times as low as 10 nanoseconds. Despite SRAM being faster, it's not as commonly used as DRAM because it's so much more expensive. Both types of RAM are volatile, meaning that they lose their contents when the power is turned off.

In common usage, the term RAM is synonymous with main memory, the memory available to programs. For example, a computer with 8MB RAM has approximately 8 million bytes of memory that programs can use. In contrast, ROM (read-only memory) refers to special memory used to store programs that boot the computer and perform diagnostics. Most personal computers have a small amount of ROM (a few thousand bytes). In fact, both types of memory (ROM and RAM) allow random access. To be precise, therefore, RAM should be referred to as read/write RAM and ROM as read-only RAM.

I copied this from this link www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAM.html

I hope this helps