Low laptop slowdown - don't know why - maybe HDD or RAM?

I have a T410s with Intel i5 processor. During a fairly standard use office - word, Chrome with 30 tablets, dropbox - slows down and sometimes actually freezes for a few minutes.

My hunch is that it is the hard drive or memory. It has 4 GB of ram, and whenever I pull up the Task Manager, there seems to be about 75% RAM usage. He never seems to push much higher than that. The disc will often be popping up and down to 100% but there is no clear correlation between this and the slow downs.

Disc is Samsung PB22 - JS3 FDE 128 GB SSD and it is almost complete (do not know if the fullness might have something to do with it?)

Thanks a lot for any assistance.

Disable virtual memory (also known as disable the page file). Google; It is very easy and harm your system, although you can get a little more accidents in Firefox. Disable virtual memory forces your laptop for use in the RAM. Right now, it also uses 4 to 8 GB of SSD like pretend-RAM, and even an SSD is no match for the speed of the RAM.

But attention, Windows starts flashing 'insufficient memory' messages, once you cross 3 GB of RAM used, which means that 10 or 15 tabs in Chrome at most. RAM is cheap and ridiculously easy to update, so, since you have already provided your Thinkpad with an SSD, think about getting a 16 GB from Crucial.com. Of course, you use [almost] never more than 8 GB, but it is good to know that it is there.

In any case, use the pagefile as the decisive criterion. If Chrome is accelerating, you know it's the pagefile and having a full SSD. If it didn't help any, make complete analysis with your antivirus.

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