Thanks for the responses. So far as I understand it, readyboost is only supposed to help a bit whilst doing mundane tasks.
frogstomp – am I right in thinking an SSD drive would just work in tandem with the C drive? Is it difficult to set up, or is it plug and play? Never heard of swap files, and that makes me nervous 🙂
The drop in performance only happens when I’m processing big chunks of photos. It used to churn through them at a rate of knots but has slowed considerably in the last month. Done all the usual things; killed daft startup progs, backed up stuff I don’t need everyday and deleted it, ran a disc cleanup and all that…. I only have one game installed – it’s very much a work machine.
It’s a 500 GB hard drive with 350 free. The RAM is showing as 2807 total MB, 1676 available and 122 free. That’s just running IE. Is that normal?