I know that many of you have the issue of an older laptop that seems to lack the zip it once had. The easiest fix for many of you has been to add RAM (memory) since most older machines came with 1GB or less, and that just doesn't cut it anymore. But there are other things you can do too. If you are the DIY type, you may enjoy this article and even be moved to try one or two of the suggestions in it. This comes to us from PCWorld.

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