[Mrkrabz]

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Originally Posted by nielsbon1 Some tips from the internet: Without adding RAM, you can significatly improve your system's performance with the things listes below. - Always have Up-to-date Virus engine and Scan periodically or as needed. - Spybot, Ad-Aware, Spywareblaster, CrapCleaner are all things you should never be without. - Check your startup items (msconfig) for TSR's or memory hogs and disable them. - Make sure Windows registry is uncluttered. - Empty the Recycle Bin - Delete .tmp files, run CHKDSK,and DEFRAG as needed. - Delete files that begin with a tilde. When cleaning the system of garbage files, check for any files beginning with a tilde (~). Make sure all your applications, such as word-processing, spreadsheet, and graphics programs, are closed first, since sometimes the temporary file you are currently viewing uses a tilde. If the applications are closed, the tilde files can be deleted. - Delete old .zip files that are'nt needed. - Delete .chk files, and switch the swap file. If you've got permanent swap files, it's sometimes a good idea to set the swap file back to temporary and then permanent again to clean out any garbage. - Check browser history and cache files. Check that the user history files and Internet cache settings are set properly (cache size). Delete the cache files and history files then reset the history files to no more than three days unless you specifically need to store that information longer. By freeing up the cache, downloads from the Web actually speed up since there is more space available to store the temporary files. Clean out Windows temporary Internet files. - Update drivers as needed. Make sure you've installed the latest drivers for your devices.

Never delete things manually. Always use programs to do such, they will give greater details of what you are deleting. Use the tools I supplied.

This also clearly is not a RAM issue if everything is closed and random CPU Spikes are occurring.