Laptop locking up....Grrrrrr
My wife has a Sony Vaio laptop which she uses all the time. However it has, over the past couple of months, been locking up at regular intervals. It seems that it gets in a loop and she can do nothing with it for up to half an hour. The window that she is using, invariably Firefox or Word, will go 'pale' and the cursor will turn into a blue spinning circle. If you have read this far you will have probably worked out the she is running Vista home premium. She has a Vaio VGN-N21s with one gig of ram. Now I think it may be a ram problem as task manager often shows over 80% of available ram being used so I have just ordered 2 gig of ram from crucial. Have I wasted my money or is this the probable solution? Please help for our sanity!