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I have a Dell desktop running Ubuntu 16.04 with an 80 GB hard drive (27 GB space available) and 4 GB RAM.

It has started to work very slowly display grey screens for the last 6-8 weeks. The internet provider is ~8Mb and I have run anti-malware checks which resulted nothing. . I only use it for internet shopping and rarely download anything so how can I increase the performance and speed?

Kaz Wolfe
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All I can think about your situation is that its a main memory (RAM) problem.

Since you use your machine basically for browsing, one advice I can give you is to avoid opening a lot of tabs on your browser.

Also I highly recommend to change your desktop environment to something more lightweight in order to have more free memory. Very good information can be found here about the available environments: What kinds of desktop environments and shells are available?.

You can also search for a lightweight browser.

I were in a similar situation a few months ago and preferred xfce, although I found later that lxde is a little bit more lightweight.

Hope it helps.

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