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Why does my pc takes long to start and to open files?

MY Sony Vaio i3 is 5yrs old( VPCEB15FG). Always ran Autocad Civil, with windows 7, 4 GB ram.

About 6mths ago, windows 10 automatically downloaded inspite of many previous pop ups which i ignored.

It has since become drastically slow, taking forever to start up, open files, shut down....etc.

A computer technican recommended i increase ram to 6Gigs.

It comes with 2 ports and 2Gigs each. This implies replacing one wih 4Gigs.

Would this work?

Is this an accurate diagnosis of my problem, in the first place?

Please advice.

Thanks

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It depends, 4GB RAM is about the minimum I would run on a windows 10 machine, but 8GB would be better, but what i think is happening here is that your ram is being used 100% and the OS is referring extra RAM usage to the pagefile on disk which if you still have a hard drive (instead of a Solid State Drive) will slow it down to a crrraaawwwlll.

If the budget allows, get an SSD and RAM, if not then go with the SSD itll make vast improvements across the board, but youll notice a slowdown still when using RAM intensive applications.

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