Why does my computer lag when running any programs?

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Sholo172

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Can someone help me locate the problem? I got an old computer from a friend and got everything i needed to get it running and i works fine, except when i run any application. My computer lags and freezes when in watching a movie or browsing through the internet. I have searched the internet to figure out the problem, but no success. Can anyone help me find out the problem.
Here is what my computer is running on:

Windows & Ultimate 64-bit
2 GB of Ram
Intel Core 2 CPU 2.13 GHz

 
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More ram would be the best thing you could do. That being said, your system is very old and slow by today's standards. So don't expect much even with a ram upgrade.
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hunter315

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Biggest culprit in a not so smooth user experience is generally the hard drive. Since you only have 2GB of RAM its going to be reading and writing stuff to and from the hard drive quite often, if its an older smaller hard drive it is going to be quite slow compared to a modern drive. If you want to smooth things out definitely move up to at least 4GB of RAM and consider a new HDD, maybe a small SSD.
 
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Sholo172

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hunter315: I thought that i would be the ram but not the hdd cause i only bought it roughly 6 or 7 months ago. But ill try to get more ram added to it and see what happens.
LookItsRain: I try to update the required updates but some of them wont update, even after rebooting.
 
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bmacsys

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More ram would be the best thing you could do. That being said, your system is very old and slow by today's standards. So don't expect much even with a ram upgrade.
 
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bmacsys: Ill try to get more ram, and yes I really dont expect much from a 2005 HP model. I only want this computer running a bit more smoother than it is right now.
 
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bmacsys

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You are over thinking it. That number is a theoretical ram ceiling. No one could afford that much ram nor are there any user grade motherboards that could support that amount. You need either 4 gigabytes or better 8 gigabytes. If you have two ram slots buy a pair of two gigabyte sticks or a pair of four gigabyte sticks. Anything more than 8 gigabytes is overkill for your ancient system.
 
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