Increasing the memory in your computer is the best way to give it a big boost in performance. Even two- or three-year-old computers may just not be keeping up anymore. Rather than spending hundreds of dollars buying a whole new system, swap out your old pieces of random access memory (RAM) for new RAM with higher capacities. While no scanners are available straight through Windows to tell you what kind of RAM you need as of 2010, several websites have software that can scan your system and provide this information. Writer Bio
