put a 4Gig thumbdrive and use ‘readyboost’
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Why do I want a thumbdrive? What is it? Is it like a SSD but not in the box?
I can feel the hair growing on my chest as I ponder adding another 4G of RAM. Somewhere.
I have a 16ig thumbdrive but you can get a 4Gig tiny one and use the entire thing for Readyboost, for like $12 bucks these days.
The ‘ReadyBoost’ is built into the Windows- it is a ram drive. Whenever something is read-from or written-to your hard drive it ‘caches’ a certain amount using intelligent caching algorithms, and it increases the speed of read/writes about 1000 times. It also increases battery life because of less power usage from the disk drive and also extends the life of your disk drive from less wear and tear.
If you try my recomendations ($12 total investment) you should be pretty amazed.
Avast antivirus is free for home use. Malewarebytes is also free for home use. Let them both do a full scan (overnight)
Do them in this order: CClean, defrag, antivirus scan(s)
The additional RAM (to a total 8Gig) will just make the operating system work so much better- Windows uses much of the 4 you got all by itself.
I look forward to hearing about your results.