Computer (Not Responding)

Perhaps somebody can help me here. PLEASE!! Over the last couple of months my
computer keeps hanging up and the prompt on the top of the screen says (Not
Responding). I have searched the threads in here but they all seem to be
narrowed down to one particular program or time when theirs doesn't repsond.
Mine does it on all programs, AOL, My Documents, etc. I have done a scandisk
and a defrag. I have 4 different spyware programs and McAfee and they never
show anything major. I have a Sony VGC-RA710G with MCE 2005 and 1GB of RAM
with a 250 GB hard drive. The hard drive is barely half full, if that. I have
tried to use Registry Mechanic, but I have learned the hard way that this
program does not get along well with MCE. So I am not sure if my registry
could be the problem. It seems as though the computer gets backed up easily
and never catches up. For example, whenever I close out of or minimize AOL,
my entire desktop completely refreshes like I just turned the computer on.
Even if I close out of a website on AOL, the AOL toolbar needs to refesh
itself. The RAM used rarely goes above 600. Is this a common problem? I
upgraded with Kingston RAM boards and I know they aren't the best. If I wait
a LONG time, the (Not Responding) prompt goes away and the computer catches
up, but lots of times it takes so long I need to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to quit
the program. However, the desktop always refreshes itself like there is not
enough RAM and it cannot keep the desktop in memory while I am doing other
things. I have a feeling this is not the problem though, that would be too
easy, lol. Has anyone experienced this, and if so, how was it resolved? Any
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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