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Solution to slow shutdown/very high CPU usage/low virtual memory/slowness in system/automatic shutdown of system

Sometimes the ago my system (desktop) started giving below problems: -           Automatically shut down after running for some time. -           It was very slow. -           The temperature of core rises abruptly and system gets shutdown. -           Some popup says that your virtual memory is very low. -           Very high CPU usage without any application open by me. e  If i want to shutdown my system it will take 10-15 mins I googled and found lot of info pointing to hardware and windows service pack. I tried few of those but result was same. One fine day my system just denied booting up. I just started the system, CPU was running but nothing was visible on the screen. I thought something tragic happened for sure, may be problem with hard disk/mother board. I called up a hardware engineer and he suggested to replace the RAM. I purchased a DDR2 2GB RAM and now my system is just like new. Very fast, no temperature rise in core and just perfect. So, I suggest all, i