6. Computer performance & number of applications

This really follows on from the previous page. As we explained there, the more applications, files and documents you have open, the faster your RAM will fill up.

Even if you increase the amount of RAM memory you have in your computer, it will eventually fill up during the day.

So, another way of improving the performance of your computer is to limit the amount of applications that you have running at any one time and the amount of files / documents that you have open.

As soon as you have finished using something, close it down and release some of the RAM for use elsewhere.